Top 10 Highest-Paying College Majors
“STEM degrees dominate the rankings for highest-paying majors and STEM careers continue to offer highly competitive salaries in the job market,” said Payscale’s Gruver. “These ‘hot’ jobs rely on specialized skill sets that are hard to come by. Such talent scarcity drives up the demand for these workers along with their pay.”
However we are unable to keep many of these students in the US due to our immigration policy, so we lose a lot of talent, and we have a major skills gap in the US workforce.
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