<p>Saw the hardest major thread, got me thinking… What’s the most marketable maybe I should say versatile major? I’m guessing music and art are hard sells. However, I was surprised to find Actuarial is actually difficult to sell too. Job pool is small, lots of existing talent.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>Economics.</p>
<p>marketing</p>
<p>ba-dum-tsh</p>
<p>Engineering, sciences, public health, accounting, economics, queer studies, turf management. Kidding about the last two, although if you are truly passionate about them then you can be successful with a major in those as well.</p>
<p>Overall I’d say any major can be ‘marketable’ if you’re 1) passionate about it like hell and 2) you make good networking connections and get job or research experience that is relevant. For instance a person with a queer studies degree, who was an assistant manager at some store and also interned at the Human Rights Campaign could probably get a decent position there.</p>
<p>Engineering is very marketable.</p>
<p>remember you are going to die</p>
<p>engineering undergrad, work for a few years, get mba</p>
<p>Engineering, period.</p>
<p>cs, econ, engineering</p>
<p>John Wall.</p>
<p>CS or Engineering, and to a lesser extent Math. </p>
<p>I thought actuaries were highly demanded. I remember hearing that. That news may be a few years old though, but I bet in 4 years things will be different. If you like Math don’t be discouraged from Actuarial Science just because it might be slightly less employable than CS or Engineering.</p>
<p>“Job pool is small, lots of existing talent.”</p>
<p>I’ve heard (mainly from talking to RMI and actuarial science professors) it’s opening up beyond the insurance industry–other firms that used to hire statisticians are looking at actuaries. Also, the applicant pool is small too. All the tests required to become certified apparently weeds out many potential actuarial science majors. </p>
<p>And I’m not an AS major, so no agenda here.</p>
<p>Any major from Harvard</p>
<p>^Caltech and MIT have the highest average starting salaries.</p>
<p>Caltech and MIT are also primarily engineering schools, and engineering degrees give the highest starting salaries by far.</p>
<p>Probably computer science, economics, business/management, marketing…I’m guessing here.</p>
<p>Econ by itself is NOT all that marketable. The econ majors I know have had to get grad/pro degrees to get jobs–one is in law school, another got his PhD & teaches econ. </p>
<p>Engineering is one of the few fields where grads who have decent GPAs and some work/internship experience can get significant job offers with their bachelor’s degrees (but with the current economy, even they have fewer job offers & openings).</p>
<p>Sure, engineering is one of the more marketable degrees.</p>
<p>But there’s a catch–</p>
<p>You have to work in engineering for the rest of you life. </p>
<p>/hangs self</p>
<p>hey I wouldn’t mind designing tanks or missiles or fighter jets the rest of my life</p>
<p>I didn’t know the M1 Abrams was in need of redesigning lol.</p>
<p>Those who listed econ, could you please describe jobs you know of that folks with a BA in econ were able to get? I am totally unaware of any jobs hiring folks with a BA in econ & am very curious.</p>