<p>I was looking at the class of 05 surveys for the students career information at both U. Nebraska and St. Louis University. I was to find out that the average salary for an economics major is $34,000 at Nebraska. With the average salary for an economics major being $42,000 at SLU. With an $8,000 difference, does that mean Nebraska has a weak economics department?</p>
<p>It means Nebraska is in Nebraska and St. Louis is in St. Louis.</p>
<p>What do you mean “It means Nebraska is in Nebraska and St. Louis is in St. Louis.”</p>
<p>If your talking in reference to the cost of living for the two places, there really is no difference. I reside just outside of St. Louis and the cost of living here, isn’t high, and is on average with that of Lincoln.</p>
<p>Not cost of living. Style of living. Where do the economics majors of Nebraska work? (most not in Lincoln, I’m sure.)</p>
<p>That is true Mimi. Here in St. Louis we have Edward Jones, AG Edwards, and Scottrade, which I can name off the top of my head. The only major financial firm I can think of up in Nebraska would be Berkshire Hathaway. But with Berkshire, I’d imagine most of the jobs are given to the ivy league graduates. I do know a lot of the Nebraska graduates work in Kansas City, but I’m not framilar with any financial firms over there.</p>