<p>It’s more related to politics. Athletic Trainers struggle to get paid well in a clinical setting because insurance companies won’t reimburse for the services. This is because Medicare will not reimburse for the services. That’s because in large part physical therapists (and the APTA) of course do not want to give up their piece of the pie. The APTA has a much larger political action budget than the NATA does. </p>
<p>There are actually quite a few jobs available for athletic trainers that go unfilled each year. A lot of that is due to athletic trainers choosing not to take some of them due to the low pay. Some of the salary offers are insulting. I was told by a guy very high up in the athletic training world of a position at a private school in NC that competes in the ACC offering one of his students (with a masters degree) $15,000 a year for a full-time staff position!</p>
<p>I want to major in Economics & Finance…exactly what kind of jobscan you get with that degree (if plan on getting a masters/mba i hope?) besides in banking, econ. analysts etc… I’d LOVE to work for the State Dept though :)</p>
<p>How would your rate the difficulty of an Econ. major in college?</p>
<p>doesn’t a large % of math majors/applied math majors go to grad school? I just don’t see any practical positions for math majors that’s immediate right out of college. It just seems like a major that’s best utilized when paired up as a double major to improve insight and knowledge, like com sci and math.</p>
<p>^ Probably because the range of careers resulting from an engineering degree is less broad than those of the degrees used to get into medicine and law (like biology or political science).</p>
<p>Economics, yay!
I also think we need to remember that in some cases, it’s not necessarily what you “learn” in a major, per se, but perhaps the “type” (I hate to use that word, I mean in reference to academic/career goals) of people that usually major in it that produce these results. Like “government” for example – I don’t think government jobs are generally the most lucrative – but how many government majors actually end up working in government? It’s a pretty broad major, where you learn how to write, think critically etc. and people who major in it often plan on doing a law degree, or advanced degree of some sort. These articles don’t mention people what advanced degrees people in these fields usually get compared to the lower earning ones! I’d be interested to see how much someone who never attends grad school and has a government degree earns mid-career in comparison to a teacher or dietitian at the same level in thier career. (Not knocking government majors but that’s the one I know most about, save econ, which I plan to major in).
Someone studying to be a paralegal may be perfectly satisfied with that as their last degree, and plan on being a paralegal the rest of their lives, knowing they’d probably be earning less than someone with say, an MBA, in the long run when they made that career choice.
This data is interesting, but there are so many variables to be taken into account, especially with the less specialized degrees (I’m sure engineers do tend to make more money than teachers, even with ‘only’ bachelor degrees…) Also, as at least one person mentioned, money isn’t everything!
…That post was longer than I initially intended.</p>
<p>So why do math majors earn less than those who use their equations?This list is not quant Vs non quant.Its practical Vs theoretical.Otherwise math majors would be at the top of the list</p>
<p>It makes me sad to see Education on the list. I agree that many other jobs on the highest paying list are important, but I would argue that teaching is one of the most important professions in our country. How would the future engineers actually learn their professions without the people who taught them basic maths and sciences?</p>
<p>Not saying I disagree with the list of best-paying jobs - I think they’re important and I’m a (probably) hard sciences major myself. But I feel like education is really undervalued in America and it depresses me.</p>
<p>Hey reecezpiecez13, I feel you man. But I feel if the government were to put harder standards for education degrees, extra certifications and crap like that for wanna-be teachers, an average child’s education would be much better, less people would go into education to due increased difficulty, and the overall value for teachers would increase. This would most-likely mean better pay.</p>
<p>And regards to nutrition and dietetics being on the bottom, quite-frankly, that really sucks lol. I had an epiphany a few days ago that while I’m awesome at math and physics, they aren’t my true interests, and I’ve (formerly) been looking at engineering as a major because the money-factor was so appealing. Nutrition is my true interest. It doesn’t revolve around math, but the nutritional science major at Rutgers-NB includes chem 1/2, calc 1/2, bio 1/2, phys 1/2, o-chem 1/2, biochem 1/2, physiology, and then the butt-load of nutrition courses. But then again, any chemist or biologist with a BS won’t have good job prospects, and nutrition focuses on these majors’ topics.</p>
<p>Eh, oh well, I was planning on doing graduate school regardless. Screw bachelor’s jobs lol.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t really with teacher education. Many districts simply aren’t getting enough job applicants and cannot offer salaries high enough to attract good teachers (even though you don’t go into education for the money, getting a good salary is still important). Many districts have to rely on teachers with emergency credentials (a certification that’s supposed to be for temporary teachers in a pinch), and many schools won’t even try to fire bad teachers if they cannot hire new ones.</p>
<p>Would you rather have a math/science teacher in middle/high school who has a degree in the field they’re teaching, or in “education?” Personally, I’d rather go with the person who’s taken some training instead of someone that’s going to teach straight out of the book and not be able to do things without the answer key.</p>