From the Wall street Journal's At Work blog:
Parents, don’t despair. Even if your child spends four years of
college reading Hungarian poetry or delving deep into the Faulkner
oeuvre, he or she can still earn a decent salary shortly after packing
up the senior-year dorm room.
So says the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which
reports that the top-paying liberal arts majors for 2014 graduates are
foreign languages and literature (average starting salary $46,900) and
English ($42,200). The results are based on job offers that students
accepted earlier this year and were reported by employers in February
2014 primarily through a variety of government surveys.
The lowest-paid? Criminal justice and corrections ($36,200). Even visual-arts majors did marginally better.
“Employers hiring foreign languages and literatures majors did so
primarily to fill elementary and middle school teaching positions,”
according to the organization, which primarily represents companies that
recruit on college campuses....MORE
