<p>I still think both of you, esp, LakeClouds, place too much importance on major in academic v. trade orientation wrt gaining top paying jobs. Again, some u’s, Harvard, prime example, don’t need trade/vocational majors for its humanities and social science majors to gain high-paying jobs with just baccalaureates without having to go to grad professional school, even though a great no. of Harvard grads do attend grad school. Besides the fact that the more education obtained by a grad means >> earnings than those with just bac degrees. This is true for all disciplines all across the board. Someone with just a trade-oriented bac degree will do well to earn > $100K; someone with a prof grad degree is commonly > $200K. </p>
<p>And, too, Payscale is highly susceptible to u’s prompting their higher-tiered wage-earning bac grads to take the survey. Payscale’s survey figures very highly in some u’s websites – I believe CMC is one along with CPSLO. This probably tells me that both u’s administrations probably push their high-ended earners to survey. This is one of the reasons for high volatility and u’s jumping into the rankings within a year.</p>