我觉得非常有必要贴过来…毁三观啊，有木有…越苦逼以后越牛逼啊！！！
PS：希望大家看看后记… 我不想伤害任何人也不想黑任何人任何专业，我就是想给理工科的同学加油，虽然现在的日子很苦，但以后也会有光明的前途。 文科有文科的好处，他们的生活态度是我一直向往的。就业和薪水也不是衡量专业的一切…文科也有很多很好的专业，最好的就是Law啊！有地位有钱赚！此外美国顶层的政要大多数都是文科。。 我自己都没想到这么多人分享…作为一直好好学术的好孩子，有点被吓到了。 我还在UW-Madison读undergraduate，对就业也不算清楚…谢谢所有回复赐教的同学和前辈！通过大家的回复我也学到了很多～
特别声明： 这是2010年统计的结果，不具有时效性。而且是美国人统计美国本土的情况，不具有全球性。（仅代表美国人的思维） PS又PS： 有前辈回复说数据不算太准，还是CS赚的最多… 前辈： “经历过找工作你就懂了。。你可以去career fair看看，90%招computer science。。Berkeley的career website上一般常驻5000个jobs左右，60-70% software developer。薪cs加州一般10w以上，你这个数据的确过时了。。” -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ten most profitable majors that turn into the highest paying college degrees
总体来看是工程类专业最为NB，理科也不差。哎，商科哪里去了？ 估计是因为找到NB工作的总是少数，不过估计各位大神都是塔尖…最有价值的“三师”呢？好吧，美国本科没有law和medical（要读medical欢迎来Bio或者biochem）
这个是根据领域的，就这里毁三观啊！本来做好为了理想毁钱途的准备了，不过看来并不是的！！！
嘛，本科学理，研究生转工科很好转的，说到底还是沾了engineering的光…另外，这里有包含graduate的成分了…（话说理科不读下去真的不行…）
1. Engineering. This includes (in order of highest first year salaries) aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, environmental engineering, and civil engineering. Instead of making a list where seven of the 10 highest paying careers are in engineering, they are rolled into one mention. My cousin is an engineer at SEMCO. We graduated from college the same year and the first year on our own, he bought a $20,000 used Cadillac while I was scraping paychecks together to buy a bike.
Average first year salary: $59,000. Average mid-career salary: $101,000.
2. Economics. A pretty ubiquitous myth is that economics is all statistics and math. The fact is, while economics majors do a lot of statistics and math, they also study a wide range of topics, including social science, psychology, political science and history. Alan Metzer, even said: "economics is a social science." There are plenty of humanitarian efforts you can make in this line of work, as economists are needed to create public policy -- domestically and internationally.
Average first year salary: $50,200. Average mid-career salary: $101,000.
3. Physics. Physics is a good springboard major into a broad range of science, engineering, and education careers. With a BS in physics, students can pursue careers as a high school science teachers, laboratory technicians, computer programmers and meteorologists, to name a few. Here is a nifty chart illustrating careers in physics.
Average starting salary: $51,100. Average mid-career salary: $98,800.
4. Computer Science. I'm always jealous of IT people. Mostly because I wish I had their knowledge about computer systems, but also because they also seem to play video games when they are short on work. Majoring in computer science will allow you to navigate through the algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform information -- and that makes you an asset to any company. Other than going into Information Technology, there are plenty of career options for computer science majors, such as software designers, start-up company partners and freelance computer programmers.
Average starting salary: $56,400. Average mid-career salary: $97,400.
5. Statistics. Do you like crunching numbers and analyzing data? As a statistics major, you observe patterns and useful information for everything from business applications to political strategies. Often statisticians collect and interpret data for marketing purposes.
Average career salary: $48,600. Average mid-career salary: $94,500.
6. Biochemistry. Graduates with this major can find work as lab technicians, analytical chemists, and researcher assistants. This major also opens the door to advanced or medical degrees.
Average starting salary: $41,700. Average mid-career salary: $94, 200.
7. Mathematics. The one thing most of the items on this list have in common is a strong emphasis on math. Our lives are organized by mathematical principles, so it only makes sense that this would be the case. Majoring in math leads to a wide range of fields, such as banking and finance, computing services, insurance, industry, or education.
Average career salary: $47,000. Average mid-career salary: $93, 600.
8. Construction Management. If you have a knack for planning and organizing projects from beginning to end, then this might be the right career path for you. A construction manager's job is to oversee a construction project from its planning to the ribbon cutting ceremony. Some of the top schools for this major include Lawrence Technological University, University of Denver, and Southern Polytechnic University.
Average starting salary: $53,400. Average mid-career salary: $89,600.
9. Information Systems. For students who feel a strong connection with both business practices and the world of computer science, this major may resonate strongly. Every business uses information systems to keep track of their products and payroll. Whether you major in management information systems or computing and information systems, the path ahead will be profitable.
Average starting salary: $51,400. Average mid-career salary: $87,000.
10. Geology. I was thrilled and actually a little surprised to see that majoring in geology leads to one of the most profitable career paths. That knowledge of physical and chemical processes of the earth's atmospheric, oceanic and land systems, lends itself to making both money and sound environmental choices.
Average starting salary: $45,000. Average mid-career salary: $84,200.
下面是最“没用”的专业，这是都是美国人写的…有些夸张，大家不要当真><
The 10 Most Worthless College Majors 10. Art History
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: With an art history degree you could maybe curate an art gallery or work at a museum or .yeah, that’s it. That’s all you can do. And seeing as how every art gallery and museum I’ve ever been to has exactly one dude sitting quietly at a desk reading a New Yorker and eating a food that requires chopsticks, I’m going to go ahead and assume there’s not a lot of positions open in the field. That means you’re going to have to venture out into the corporate world. And let me inform you, when you’re interviewing with Bob from the HR team at Wal-Mart who’s wearing a tie that has the twin towers smoking with writing underneath that says “We Will Never Forget, your art history degree says to him “I’m a commie a-hole who thinks I’m better than guys with 9/11 ties.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After your parents boot your ass from your bedroom to make room for anything that’s not your bedroom, you’ll wander towards the nearest coffee shop and get a job there, which will allow you to meet artists who will thank you for allowing them to put fliers by the cash register that inform people of their upcoming show that touts “the combination of art and flute. 9. Philosophy
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: This isn’t ancient Greece: No one is going to pay you money, or allow you to sodomize their attractive son, in exchange for your knowledge of existence. Never has there been an employer who’s said “Man, we’re having all kinds of problems, I wish we had someone on our team who could reference and draw conclusions from the story of Siddhartha that would pull up our fourth quarter numbers. I took many philosophy classes and it involved reading and smoking a shit pile of weed. You don’t need to pay 20,000 dollars a year to do that. All you need is twenty dollars and a library card.
What Job You’ll End Up With: Thanks to your extensive knowledge of philosophy, you’re now self-aware enough to know that most jobs out there will make you totally miserable. So most likely you’ll wait tables part time and hope someone starts paying you for the bi-monthly entries on your blog.
8. American Studies
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: If you’re not named Achmed or Bjork or G’Day Mate this isn’t a degree, it’s the last 18 years of your life. If you really want to study us you don’t need to go to some stupid class, you need only to sit back and watch a two-hour block of Must-See TV to understand The American. After doing my own research, it seems that this mysterious creature is a pot-bellied humanoid with a hot wife and bad credit who has a penchant for low-calorie beer, Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays, Denny’s, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Dave and Busters, Steak and Shake, Chilis (again) and Red Lobster. Oh and he can totally demolish a White Castle Crave Case in, like, 20 seconds. OK, now give me my degree.
What Job You’ll End Up With: To take your American Studies degree one step further, you will be qualified to do 40-50 years of “graduate work cleaning tables and taking orders at a Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays or Red Lobster. Or possibly Denny’s.
7. Music Therapy
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: I didn’t even know this was a major until I found it on the Appalachian State website. According to their actual explanation of this major: “Music therapy is the scientific application of the art of music within a therapeutic relationship to meet the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals. Which is a big, fancy way of saying “We’ll teach you how to make a mix tape. I guess I, too, am a qualified music therapist because my “Summer Jams “95 tape I made in the 10th grade totally rocked my house party. All my friends told me that kicking it off with Wreckz-N-Effects “Rump Shaker followed by Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise totally met their physical, mental and spiritual needs to help them get wasted on my dad’s Schnapps and Drambuie.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After realizing that yoga studios and elderly homes don’t pay people just to come in and set mood music, you’re sadly going to end up putting your degree towards burning a fire to keep warm because you are homeless.
6. Communications
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Go into a communications class on any given day and it’ll smell like dried semen and booze. Reason being, communications is the major for anyone who wants to graduate, but doesn’t want to stop getting totally wasted on weekdays. Here’s the bad news, if an employer is going to hire someone to help decipher how human beings communicate, he’s going to hire someone with the letters “Dr. before their name, not the person who first checks to see if a class is offered online, then when they find out it’s not, let’s out a “gaaaaay bro.
What Job You’ll End Up With: You’ll go to several job interviews that turn out to be pyramid schemes, even though at first you won’t realize this and come home and tell your parents, who you still live with, “They said I’ll probably be making six figures in less than a year just by selling these beer cozies.
5. Dance
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Despite what “Dancing with the Stars and “High School Musical may tell you, there aren’t a lot of dancing jobs out there,so you better be good because there aren’t any gigs for mediocre dancers. Outside of New York City or some crap in LA there is absolutely nothing you can do with a dance degree that doesn’t involve actually dancing for money. And since the Des Moines interpretive dance movement hasn’t really taken off yet, you have a better chance landing a job as an 8-Track repairman or a member of the Beatles.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After moving to New York and trying out for Hello Dolly! or Damn Yankees or any of the other seven Broadway plays that want dancers and not landing a single one because you got your dance degree from Ball State, you will find ample opportunity to show off your choreographic skills at one of the city’s many strip clubs. You’ll just need to change your name to Crystal or Bambi and you’ll be able finally live out your dream as a dancer. (Mom and Dad will be so proud!)
4. English Lit
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: If someone can spend a weekend with a box of Cliff’s Notes and have only a slightly less conversational knowledge of what you spent 4 years studying, you probably don’t have the most employer friendly degree. Having an English Lit degree is like being a member of the Kansas City Royals: No one cares and the best you can hope for is every once in a while someone buys you a beer because of it.
What Job You’ll End Up With: You can read and comprehend, so that gives you an advantage over 99.5% of the people that peruse Craig’s list job listings. Therefore, you’ll most likely end up landing an entry level position at a random small company, or showing up to your interview and being raped repeatedly by a group of masked men.
3. Latin
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Not only does no one speak this language anymore, but we already have all the Latin that exists in the world. There’s no new Latin that’s hot off the presses that needs immediate translating. I’m no business major, but majoring in a language that doesn’t exist anymore doesn’t sound so good for job security. And I’m sorry to break the news to you, but the world doesn’t need someone to translate The Bible or the inscription on the side of a Post Office or El Loco Latino’s “Latin House Party.
What Job You’ll End Up With: Since you majored in something that doesn’t exist, you’re going to have two jobs. Your first one will be as the annoying pretentious guy who gives everyone the Latin etymology of every big word he hears at every dinner party he attends. Your second, and most lucrative job, will be as a Subway Sandwich Artist.
2. Film
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: No one in hollywood gives a shit that you made a short film about an alcoholic albino that discovers the meaning of life through the help of a retarded child. Unless that retarded child was played by the son of Harvey Weinstein, your film or degree will be as pointless as the last three seasons of Lost
What Job You’ll End Up With: If you’re lucky, you’ll have an uncle who can get you a job as a production assistant on CSI Miami, where your time will be spent making coffee runs and finding whores that will let David Caruso pee on them.
1. Religion
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Sorry God, but a major in Religion is about as worthless as St. Brice (The Patron Saint of Stomach Aches.) Even Duke University can’t put a solid sell on this degree: “A major in religion offers intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education. OK, you sold me. So now I get to shell out about a hundred thousand dollars so I can know what to wear to a Shinto ceremony and learn how many virgins Allah will give me if I blow myself up in an Israeli square? If it’s OK with you, I’ll keep my money and stick to my sinning-a-lot-now-and-repenting-on-my-deathbed plan.
What Job You’ll End Up With: This one is tricky. On one hand you’ll probably end up working behind the desk of a Christian Science Reading Room. But on the other, you may end up with everlasting peace and spiritual enlightenment. Let’s call it a draw.
最后，苦逼的工科男们，理科女在这里恭喜你们！钱程似锦啊！
后记： 没想到这么多人来看… 其实我想解释一下。 如果细心的同学肯定会发现，Math专业的就业方向里净是保险投资这类的，其实理科毕业生没多少真的在搞理科… 还记得在本科选专业的时候我家人一直在说，学理科找不到工作，学什么理科。是我一意孤行的学我自己喜欢的专业，父母拿我没辙才同意的。不过我庆幸我自己的坚持，托这些难的要死的课的福，我成长了许多。 不论我以后能不能在生化和数学领域走下去，我都很开心，我曾经和它们在一起过。 专业的价值不仅仅局限于学习的领域，更在于在学习过程中掌握的方法技能，锻炼的意志精神和塑造的价值观～就算以后参加工作可能会告别我喜欢的学科，可它们给我留下的能力会让我在任何工作中受益匪浅。 也许高收入的不是学科本身，而是这些学科锻炼出来的我们！ | 
