Worst Paying College Degrees

If you are looking for an undergraduate degree that will help you earn a strong salary, think math. If you want to avoid some of the lowest paying fields, reconsider degrees related to children and food.

Pay scale’s appraisal of college degrees by preliminary and mid-career wages put an engineer's sky-scraping on the catalog, comprising a great deal of the top twenty five (below) based on a starting salary:

Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Physics
Computer Engineering
Economics
Computer Science

Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Building Construction
Materials Science & Engineering
Civil Engineering
Statistics
Finance
Software Engineering
Management Information Systems
Mathematics
Government
Information Systems
Construction Management
Environmental Engineering