Top 10 degrees in demand

Top 10 degrees in demand

A new survey indicates a brighter job outlook for new college grads compared with last year.
The Job Outlook 2005 survey, conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, was released Friday.

The top 10 degrees were:
1. Accounting
2. Electrical Engineerng
3. Mechanical Engineering
4. Business Administration/Mananagment
5. Economics/ Finance
6. Computer Science
7.Computer Engineering
8. Marketing/Marketing mangement
9. Chemical Engineering
10. Information Science and Systems

I see alot of distance study programs in Business Administration and Management. How about the other top" degrees? Are they readily available by Distance Study or are they more "in-residence" at the entry level? (Bachelor's Degree)
Survey described at
http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/12/pf/college/degrees_jobs/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

Everything but the engineering areas (2,3,7,9) are represented fairly well in the dl world.

 

The table listing starting salaries for various degrees is also interesting.



Wot? No theology?

 

This is encouraging....hopefully by the time I finish school jobs will be available.

 

This is encouraging....hopefully by the time I finish school jobs will be available.

 

Sorry, but I have to disagree. At the master level I know from researching many graduate schools that electrical engineering and computer engineering are WELL represented. I don't have any knowledge about the other engineering disciplines. At the bachelors level you are quite correct. Of course at the bachelors level I would also say that Computer Science is not well represented although granted, there are more institutions offering CS degrees than the engineering degrees.

 

No problem. Still, the article (and the original poster) referred to bachelor level degrees and that was what my comment was based on.
I agree that CS is not as well represented as the other, non-engineering degrees, but at least the CS programs that have low or no residency number in the double digits, as compared to zero(?) engineering degrees (not technology programs) without relatively high residency requirements.
Anyway, I do agree that CS is something of a 'tweener in this discussion, but, for brevity's sake, I commented as I did.
Tony

 

To answer your question, check out the Dantes Catalog link posted at my BS checklist, located at http://www.123collegedegree.com/bschecklist.html . The database has an emphasis on military discounts, when applicable. There are plenty of DL degrees out there besides business.

I believe this website (degreeinfo) also has a DL database.

Hope this helps.

 

I THINK that the professional pharmacy degree is now the D. Pharm, isn't it? In other words, it's no longer a bachelor's degree? It takes six years of post-secondary study, IIUC.

 

That's correct: the DPharm, probably the largest -- and certainly the most sought after -- program at my university, is a six-year program. The accreditors no longer accredit baccalaureate pharmacy programs.

 

I think you are right, it was just a bachelors until a year ago

 

As a EE, EE's are not in as big demand anymore. The reason is simple - everything is modularized. There are a few openings for top level designers (chip designers, I/O designers, etc), but most of the time you are peforming integration rather than design.

Who made up this list and what fantasy land do they live in? CS degrees? Great - but a lot of people with CS and CE degrees are actually software engineers whose jobs are outsourced to a Bangladore. (same with IT/IS jobs).

I am not saying these jobs aren't available, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have picked accounting.

 

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I agree with Mr. Engineer, I have few friends with PhDs in Computer Science and EE that are doing post-docs due to the lack of positions in these fields. On the other hand, accountants make around 100-150K a year and are protected by Canadian province licenses so their jobs cannot be outsourced to India or China. I just read an article in the PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario) magazine that talks about one engineer that was forced to sign designs outsourced from Russia. The outsourcing of engineering seems to be here to stay so engineering is not an attractive profession anymore.

 

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In the U.S. at least, offshoring of finance and accounting is definitely here and growing. Ford has 400 people in an accounting operation in Chennai, India. GE Capital has 12,000 employees at an accounting and claims processing center in Delhi. ICAI, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is a very active organization in India that has been encouraging this trend, and the number of skilled Indian CA's, or Chartered Accountants, who are familiar with GAAP and can speak English, are apparently growing. In fact, British Airways, and other companies, have said that as well as the cost savings, there are other less tangible benefits of outsourcing accounting to India, due to their generally greater skill and education.

So clearly, accounting is an area that will be outsourced heavily.

 

Very interesting. In today's Indianapolis Star the top jobs advertised were in the fields of nursing (wiped out all others), health care, mental health workers (all types), and admin positions.

 

Actually I am not surprised... What I am surprised about is to see computer and electrical engineering jobs to be still "in demand" according to the survey. So many of my friends with computer engineering backgrounds have lost their jobs primarily due to restructuring towards a leaner organization, primarily as a result of outsourced jobs to other countries. I am not talking about IT, but design jobs.

 

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so that means with all the important jobs going to India, they will soon have all the buttons to the US (and Canadian) economy. If the trend continues they will be able to shut down our economy any time they want. thats great. !

 

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Actually, there are a lot of important jobs that don't show any trending towards being offshored, for example, CEO, board director, and venture capitalist. Those jobs seem to be safe bets.

As for Canada, I see it mentioned more often not as an outsourcer, but as an outsourcing destination.

 

It's important to remember that this is a list of the most sought after majors by companies for candidates graduating this academic year.

For those with stories about friends losing jobs, it's a whole different game. I'm guessing that these friends are not making entry-level salaries.



Tom Nixon