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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
by AUBREY RESECH
News Reporter
With graduation slowly approaching, many students are looking to the career market for direction on the next move to make in their professional lives.
At Appalachian State University, the three most popular degrees for 2006 graduates were business, education and journalism, according to Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning.
There were approximately 601 business degrees awarded last year alone from many different sub areas.
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Yonathan Lewit, a senior biology major, works in a chemistry lab in the CAP Building. Chemistry is the most lucrative major for average starting salary, according to CNN News.
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“The reason I came to ASU was to pursue a business degree and because I
knew of the university’s outstanding program,” Lawrence J. Kovalcin, a
freshman accounting major, said. “I am also aware of all the career
opportunities that a business degree will generate as a result of the
field’s constant expansion and growth.”
Research conducted by National Association of Colleges and Employers
shows many employers plan to hire at least 17.4 percent more college
graduates this year than they did last year, according to CNN.
The same research also revealed that employers plan to increase the starting salaries of incoming college graduates.
Business and science-oriented degrees have seen the largest starting pay increases, according to CNN.
Marketing majors can plan on a 14 percent increase in starting salary, which in most cases will be $41,323.
The next highest increase was seen for business management majors, with
salaries starting at $43,523, a rise of approximately 9.2 percent.
Other majors that saw significant salary increases were mechanical
engineering, chemical engineering, management information systems,
civil engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and
accounting.
“It’s difficult to imagine an organization or business that has no need
for computing professionals,” Dr. Dee Parks, a computer science
professor, said. “There is a tremendous demand for computer-science
graduates these days because there simply are not enough of them to
fill all the jobs in the field, and this is not going to change any
time soon.”
“For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed working with and around
computers,” freshman Daniel J. Joensen said. “After learning that the
field of computer science is both growing in size and salary, I have
become even more inclined to consider it as a future profession.”
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