11 of the Best Paying College Degrees

The trend of huge, irrelevant images in blog posts needs to go away. This post is particularly bad.

These surveys always forget to mention how many jobs openings are out there.

I've recently done some research in my state (RS/Brazil) and found that new jobs for economists payed double what systems analysts got (in the last 6 months). But there were 721 jobs in IT and 6 for economists.

Actuarial science should be advertised with a disclaimer to this affect. I have known people who go through large programs to find out their city of 3+ million has only one actuarial position open a year.

Accounting frequently makes these lists, but if we're talking about Big 4 auditing/tax, I'd say it's highly misleading. Being expected to work significant overtime with no compensation results in a much lower effective salary.

So, pretty much all of them.

No surprising picks there.

I was a little surprised by construction management

I was surprised to see geology there, though it makes sense when you think about it: lots of demand from oil and mining companies.