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The most financially rewarding subjects to study

4/30/2017

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The dataset, degrees-that-pay-back.csv, is available on Kaggle.

The top 5 Majors in terms of percent change from starting to mid-career salary are:

Math                                      103.5%
Philosophy                            103.5%
International Relations        97.8%
Economics                             96.8%
Marketing                              95.1%

The bottom five majors are:
Education                              49%
Interior Design                     47.4%
Nutrition                               38.6%
Nursing                                  23.6%
Physician Assistant              23.4%

Computer science only just makes it into the top 20 at number 19. However in terms of the top 5 highest mid-career salaries computing does well:

Chemical engineering     $107,000
Computer engineering    $105,000
Electrical engineering      $103,000
Aerospace engineering    $101,000
economics                         $98,600

The bottom five salaries are:

Music                                $55,000
Interior Design                 $53,200
Spanish                             $53,100
Religion                            $52,000
Educaion                           $52,000

The best colleges to graduate from, assuming you want to earn more, are:
Dartmouth College
Princeton
Yale
MIT
Harvard
In the southern region the best college to graduate from, in terms of mid-career salary, is Georgetown
In the mid-western region the best college to graduate from, in terms of mid-career salary, is University of Notre Dame
In the western region the best college to graduate from, in terms of mid-career salary, is Colorado School of Mines
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