[CharlesWayneCT]

Education is an odd major. If you want to be a teacher, you would normally get a degree in some field, and then get a masters in Education.

I guess if you want to teach general elementary school, you’d get an education degree.

Interestingly, while education in general pays low for a college degree, the unemployment rate for people with education degrees is very low.

5 of the top 20 employment fields for POPULAR majorgs are education degrees; all are higher than civil engineering.

BTW, 5 of the top 7 fields are medical; the other two are agriculture and industrial production. I would NOT have guessed those last two.

My field, electrical engineering, came in 25th, tied with math and environmental science. Behind civil engineering, which in my day was the engineering field for people who couldn’t pass real engineering courses..... :-)

I can say that because my wife is a civil engineer.

BTW,the top 5 employment majors aren’t popular ones. And they include computer science, which I would have thought would be a very popular major and would not have good employment numbers because I thought there would be a glut of programmers.

Astrophysics/astronomy 0%
Geological and geophysics engineering 0%
Physical science 2.5%
Geosciences 3.2%
Math/computer science 3.5%

I wonder why every astronomy major gets a job?

[JCBreckenridge]

That’s what I’m in the process of doing. Actually, most teachers don’t require a masters in education. 4 year degree in the subject you plan to teach. :)

[whd23]

I wonder why every astronomy major gets a job?

One theory is that they may not be employed in their field, but that their degree has provided them with good math and science skills. Also, a lot of hard science degree programs use computers extensively so the graduates will leave college with 'X' degree but actually be quite proficient in computer programming as well.

[whd23]

I wonder why every astronomy major gets a job?

One theory is that they may not be employed in their field, but that their degree has provided them with good math and science skills. Also, a lot of hard science degree programs use computers extensively so the graduates will leave college with 'X' degree but actually be quite proficient in computer programming as well.

[Last Dakotan]

Behind civil engineering, which in my day was the engineering field for people who couldn’t pass real engineering courses...

Today that would easily be Industrial Engineering. Dumb as a bag of hammers they are.