Top Paying 4-Year Degrees

[x86assembly]

Check out UPS

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2003-10-14-ups_x.htm

[magman007]

funny, they forgot Avaition. It usually much more profitable in the long run compared to those other jobs

[BlackVCG]

Aviation as in flying planes or engineering planes? If you meant flying... there's only a very small fraction of pilots in the world compared to the number of employees in any of those listed fields. It's not exactly something thousands of people each year get trained in and use it as a career path. If you meant engineering, that would fall under mechanical engineering.

I'm suprised to see my degree as high up there as it is (ME).

I read that UPS article and I thought, wow those guys make a lot of money... but then I think, how much job satisfaction can you get out of driving a truck around all day and walking to people's doors to give them a box? I guess if that's your kinda thing, then go for it. I know I wouldn't last a year doing that job out of sheer boredom. The pay is one thing, but thinking about what you accomplished at the end of the day is another. I like being involved in the end-user product industry. Meaning, what I engineer is something a person uses, or in the case of my current job, driving down the road.

[legion_02]

Gotta love computer networking. Been going to college for a year and a half. Got a couple of certifications, and got my foot in the door making ~30 grand a year at 19 y/o. Plus its a cush job where i sit around all day and surf AO and study for more tests. Gotta study for about 6 months to get my CCIE though. Starting pay for that is 80-100 grand not to mention all the side consulting you can do.

Hardcore Cisco techs make buco money.

[ProX9]

I see a lot of people looking at the rest of their lives from the wrong point of view, money first before their own interest. Everyone likes money, I won't argue against that. I just don't think that money should be the deciding factor when you're deciding what major to pursue or what job to stick with. So a UPS driver makes 60k-70k a year, do you want to drive around all day carrying heavy packages to someone's doorstep? Actuaries make a lot as well, but they sit behind a desk all day analyzing risk, sounds enjoyable. After many years of thinking and going through about 9000 ideas of what I wanted to be, I decided that chemical engineering was for me. It gives such a huge spectrum of job choices and it's everything I want to do. It's also very high paying, especially for those with doctorals. On a side note, I like blowing things up and a chemical engineering degree will definitely get me into that field should I decide to pursue that.

[trains are bad]

I'm taking a straight physics degree, minor in math. I'm really only taking physics because it's the only thing that can keep my attention, and it's objective. I would have taken engineering, but this school doesn't really have an engineering program, and they kind of rolled the red carpet out for me as far as financial aid. Gotta love buying subwoofers with the $1800 a semester I get paid to go to school. Ahh, the benefits of getting a 34 on the ACT. I'm currently pulling a 3.46 but next semester is going to be hell.

[Jakedubbleya]

actuarial mathematics.....That would be above them all. That is my current major and the pay in it is amazing.

I know a methemetician who could only find a job as a professor (w/ doctorate of course)

he got bored, got a degree in physics, and now has under his belt such projects as the super-collider, and is currently working with IBM as a lead on the worlds most powerfull computer.

math itself sucks.
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of course im majoring in alchohol, so maby my views are a bit skewed

[Jakedubbleya]

also, on another note, just to be a jackass:

i could drop out of school right now and make 60k my first year. no experience or schooling of any sort.

oh, and thats working maby 4, 5 days a week, sometimes 4 hour days, sometimes 34 hour days (but usually around 6 ).

GUESS THAT JOB!

(but im still going to school, the 20k i make in the summer is fine...)

[Rooster]

Engineers ge more cash up front, but they top out quicker. A good process/project manager will be making twice what an engineer does in just a few years. They catch is, you have to be good.

[Miscue]

also, on another note, just to be a jackass:

i could drop out of school right now and make 60k my first year. no experience or schooling of any sort.

oh, and thats working maby 4, 5 days a week, sometimes 4 hour days, sometimes 34 hour days (but usually around 6 ).

GUESS THAT JOB!

(but im still going to school, the 20k i make in the summer is fine...)

Dope Dealer.

[Big'n slo]

Engineers ge more cash up front, but they top out quicker. A good process/project manager will be making twice what an engineer does in just a few years. They catch is, you have to be good.

QTF

I gotta go check my job description

[Jakedubbleya]

Dope Dealer.

allow me to add lega/legitimate to the job description

and that after about 5 yrs of experience in it you can get 40 hr a week jobs that pay 100k.

[Miscue]

allow me to add lega/legitimate to the job description

and that after about 5 yrs of experience in it you can get 40 hr a week jobs that pay 100k.

Aha! Sperm donor!

[gimp]

I see a lot of people looking at the rest of their lives from the wrong point of view, money first before their own interest. ....

That is definetly right. I've got an electrical and a computer engineering degree from a decent school. I could have made quite a bit more money working at some company where I sit behind a desk all day crunching numbers. I went with the lesser paying job because I'm excited about it. I get to do something I want to do.

Engineers ge more cash up front, but they top out quicker. A good process/project manager will be making twice what an engineer does in just a few years. They catch is, you have to be good.

That is true. Engineers generally get a good starting salary, a few raises, but it really doesn't increase much and it tops out pretty fast. I'm just out of school, but what I've noticed with all the companies that I've interviewed is that the managers started out as engineers. also, at my school, they started spending a lot of time teaching management tactics just for this reason.

[BlackVCG]

Yes, you can only go so far as an engineer. Where I work, the highest level engineer is a Senior Development Engineer. The guy that sits right next to me at work is one and he more or less does the same stuff as myself, but has some long term projects of greater responsibility.

You definitely need to continue your education. I plan on in a year or two going for an MBA and then using that later on in my career. There's no way I'm going to sit in the same desk for 20 years and just move up the engineering ladder. For some people though, that's perfectly fine. It's all up to you. Just don't let money be a deciding factor on the education path you choose. Do what you're interested in and the money will follow.