10 Best Paying Bachelor's Degrees
Published / 12-12-12We started with a simple question, which bachelor's degrees can make students the most money. To us, this doesn't mean simply the highest paying job, because having the qualifications for a high paying job but having to compete against 100 other candidates for each job might not work out so well. If it wasn't obvious yet, we don't like competition, we like degrees that prepare students with unique and in demand training for jobs offering good salaries. Why did we bother? We believe in providing students with valuable information to help them make a better educated (no pun intended) decisions. We consider this list to be another aspect of that goal. We hope that after reading this list you can't help but agree.
10 Best Paying Bachelor's Degrees
- 1. Petroleum Engineering / Bachelor's degree
- 2. Computer Engineering, General / Bachelor's degree
- 3. Information Technology / Bachelor's degree
- 4. Computer Science / Bachelor's degree
- 5. Computer Programming/Programmer, General / Bachelor's degree
- 6. Finance, General / Bachelor's degree
- 7. Computer and Information Sciences, General / Bachelor's degree
- 8. Operations Management and Supervision / Bachelor's degree
- 9. Accounting and Business/Management / Bachelor's degree
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance / Bachelor's degree
Note: Our completions/graduates counts are for 1st majors only (data provided by ed.gov)