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Computer Science Tops the List of Degrees with Highest Return

March 27th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

PrintOn March 26, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic published an article titled Which College – and Which Major – Will Make You Richest?  The article provides the full methodology and explanations of the study done by PayScale.  What we found most interesting is the information on degrees.  Nine of the top 10 degrees with the highest return on investment are computer science programs.  

 

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…no degree in America is more valuable than a computer-science major at Stanford, Columbia, or Berkeley. Notably, the most valuable non-computer-science major in the country is also at Stanford: economics.

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Computer Science Tops the List of Degrees with Highest Return

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