[nabs-l] The 10 college majors with the lowest unemployment rates

[Nallym Bravo]

Hello,

Below is an interesting article I was sent by someone in my
university's Career Services office. It's a good read for anyone, but
especially if you're trying to decide what field you would like to
pursue.

The 10 college majors with the lowest unemployment rates

.By Liz Goodwin
National Affairs Reporter
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Job fair in Minneapolis (AP)
College students, take note: There are at least six fields of study
whose graduates are virtually 100 percent employed right now. That's
right--certain majors, such as pharmacology, produce graduates who
face a zero percent unemployment rate.

That's not bad considering last month's joblessness rate for people
with a college degree or higher was 4.4 percent.

The Wall Street Journal created an interactive tool where users can
search for the average employment rate and median income of people who
studied each major. The data comes from the Georgetown Center on
Education and the Workforce, which released a similar ranking of
majors in May that we wrote about here.

The Center's previous study found that graduates with engineering and
science majors tend to earn significantly more many than graduates
with other college majors. (A petroleum engineering major will make
300 percent more over his or her lifetime than a peer who majored in
counseling psychology, for example.)

But narrowing the results down to only the employment rate yields a
wider range of fields that provide excellent job security. People who
majored in some lower paying fields, such as school counseling, face
an almost nonexistent chance of being unempl0yed.

Check out the rest of the most employable majors, below.

Majors and their unemployment rate:

1. Actuarial Science—0 percent

2. Astronomy and Astrophysics—0 percent

3. Educational Administration and Supervision—0 percent

4. Geological and Geophysical Engineering—0 percent

5. Pharmacology—0 percent

6. School Student Counseling—0 percent

7. Agricultural Economics—1.3 percent

8. Medical Technologies Technicians—1.4 percent

9.Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology—1.6 percent

10. Environmental Engineering, Nursing, and Nuclear Industrial
Radiology and Biological Technologies—2.2 percent

Best,
Nallym Bravo