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    Best-Paying College Degrees

    Just to balance out KL's thread:

    In other words, make your kids do their math homework.

    Full list:

    http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp
    Last edited by Jeff Lebowski; 05-11-2010, 01:15 PM.
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    It's conspicuously missing actuaries.
    Everything in life is an approximation.

    http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Indy Coug View Post
      It's conspicuously missing actuaries.
      #11
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
        Just to balance out KL's thread:

        In other words, make your kids to their math homework.

        Full list:

        http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp


        Couldn't agree more. This will give some hard facts to the argument that I am currently having with my 13 year old. If that doesn't work, I will probably end up killing her.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          #11
          Statistics <> Actuarial Science

          Other statistical disciplines are depressing that number.
          Everything in life is an approximation.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Indy Coug View Post
            Statistics <> Actuarial Science

            Other statistical disciplines are depressing that number.
            Yeah, but the list is based on undergrad degrees, not careers or post-grad degrees. I am assuming that most actuaries major in stats as undergrads. Is that not the case?

            And hey, we get it. You are loaded.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
              Yeah, but the list is based on undergrad degrees, not careers or post-grad degrees. I am assuming that most actuaries major in stats as undergrads. Is that not the case?

              And hey, we get it. You are loaded.
              Most actuaries don't get graduate degrees. The actuarial exam program is more than sufficient "graduate study".
              Everything in life is an approximation.

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              • #8
                A Civil engineer and a mechanical engineer that I work with found out an uneducated, redneck superintendent that is just starting off was making more than they were out of college. That didn't sit well. I told them come back in 20 years and compare salaries at that point. That superintendent will be working for them.
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                • #9
                  I hate lists like this because I never know how accurate they are. But if I'm reading this list correctly, after 7 years in my field I'm already over the mid-career median salary. I don't know if that is a function of my location or my intelligence but I'm inclined to say it's most likely my location.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                    Just to balance out KL's thread:

                    In other words, make your kids do their math homework.

                    Full list:

                    http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp


                    I'm actually surprised that ChemE is still higher than EE.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                      Yeah, but the list is based on undergrad degrees, not careers or post-grad degrees. I am assuming that most actuaries major in stats as undergrads. Is that not the case?

                      And hey, we get it. You are loaded.
                      I wonder if the list is for people that have only earned bachelors and masters, because most accountants with a masters should be making well north of that figure for mid-career median average salary.
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                      • #12
                        I won't comment if I think this is accurate or not, but it's probably more accurate than the numbers originally quoted.

                        http://dwsimpson.com/salary.html
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                        • #13
                          EJ dropping the, 'I make 6 figures' bomb. Awesome.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

                            In other words, make your kids do their math all their homework.
                            I couldn't agree more. A well-rounded education is the best thing you can give your children. It lets people figure out if they want to be a teacher or an engineer, or both.

                            Because of my own interests, I'm taking pains to make sure that my kids embrace the sciences and math, so that I don't limit their own interests by my often-overwhelming personality. Therefore, we're sending our oldest to this camp (for the 2nd time) so that she gets exposure to stuff that we really aren't experts in:

                            http://www.invent.org/camp/parentstypicalday.aspx
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by fusnik View Post
                              EJ dropping the, 'I make 6 figures' bomb. Awesome.
                              Ha, I didn't say or imply that, just that I'm over the median salary for an accountant (which is well south of 6 figures). In my location if you are not over that amount then you are doing it wrong.

                              I'm not about to disclose any pay related information, especially in a forum full of lawyers and doctors who most likely started at a pay scale above what I'm currently earning.
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