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If you want to make bank with your bachelor’s, study architecture or engineering, but for heaven’s sake, run screaming from education studies.

Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has a new report on what grads can expert to earn with a given degree. In an email blast today, it says:

• Not all Bachelor’s degrees are created equal. For instance, at the entry level, health majors earn $41,000 annually, while humanities and liberal arts majors earn $29,000 annually.
• Among the 15 major groups, architecture and engineering majors are paid the most and education majors are paid the least. College graduates who major in architecture or engineering earn an average salary of $83,000 per year, while education majors earn $45,000 per year.
• Among the 136 major subgroups, petroleum engineering majors are paid the most and early childhood education majors pay the least. College graduates who majored in petroleum engineering earn an average annual salary of $136,000 over the course of their careers, while those who majors in early childhood education earn $39,000 annually.

You can check the earnings potential for all 137 majors using the report’s interactive tool. Interestingly, the earnings gap between undergrad and graduate-degree holders isn’t as steep as you might think – just $17,000 a year “over the course of their careers.”

Read the report or just its executive summary.

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