College majors with the highest earning potential. 2012 college major with highest paying degrees.

Choosing a college major is a big deal for most prospective students.  After all, with colleges now routinely costing $40,000 to $50,000 a year for selective private institutions students should be asking what degrees are worth it.  Look at recently released data for college majors and we find some interesting although not ground breaking data.  For those that plan to pursue college majors with low payouts, it is probably worth your time to consider how much student loan debt you want to saddle yourself before pursuing that degree.  As you should know, student loan debt is one of the most difficult forms of debt to discharge even in bankruptcy.  Your wages are garnered, Social Security can be stifled, and forget about ever seeing a tax refund.  So let us take a look at the top earning college majors for the recent year.

Top earning college majors:

Source: Georgetown University

No surprise that the sciences and engineering have the highest payouts with business majors doing well much more so with graduate level degrees.  With rising tuition students should be asking what college degree has the highest earning potential especially if you are going into massive debt for the degree.

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