Forbes.com announced it’s list for best and worst Master Degrees For Jobs. With thousands of college grads entering the workforce this year and unemployment at 9.1% there will be many job searching and in the market to purse graduate degrees. Forbes set out to determine which master’s degrees would provide the best long-term opportunities, based on salary and employment outlook. They turned to payscale.com, which lets users compare their salaries with those of other people in similar jobs by culling real-time salary data from its 16.5 million profiles. They also looked at the average degree’s pay rand and estimated growth rank to find the best and worst master’s degrees for jobs. Here is a list of Forbes Best & Worst Master Degrees For Jobs.
Best Degrees
1. Physician Assistant Studies: Mid-career median pay $101,000 Projected employment increase 39%
2. Computer Science : Mid-career median pay $109,000 Projected employment increase 27%
3. Civil Engineer: Mid-career median pay $96,400 Projected employment increase 24%
4. Economics: Mid-career median pay $116,000 Projected employment increase 19%
5. Environmental Science median pay $84,300 Projected employment increase 28%
Worst Degrees
1. Chemistry: median pay $86,000 Projected employment increase 3%
2. Counseling: median pay $54,000 Projected employment increase 17%
3. Library information: median pay $59,000 Projected employment increase 14%
4. Education: median pay $59,500 Projected employment increase 14%
5. Social Work: media pay $56,000 Projected employment increase 16%
