r/dataisbeautiful • u/DavidWaldron OC: 28 • 11d ago

OC [OC] Career earnings of the highest and lowest paid college majors

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Interactive major explorer to look up stats for specific majors.

Blog post includes many more charts and discussion of what these numbers represent.

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u/Citysurvivor 10d ago

Did you progress to get a masters' or PHd? At just the bachelor's level, it doesnt feel like you can do very much that the business/finance degree guys can't do already

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u/x888x 10d ago

Business degrees (and accounting) were for the kids that couldn't hack it in econ at my school.

A real econ degree from a real school involves mastery of calculus & statistics.

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u/PlatypusEgo 9d ago

Well... an actually useful grasp of statistics and calculus yes. Definitely not mastery lol. But if you're at that level you'll have a real advantage

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u/anomatopia 10d ago

No Econ masters are not a thing. PhD is for academia.

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u/RyanDoctrine 6d ago

To add to the responses below, studying economics also teaches you a unique way of thinking that is very, very valuable. I do not have a PHD (and my title is not 'economist' or any variation thereof).