Epic College Major Statistics

So I found these epic College Education statistics on the National Center for Education Statistics....

Here is an except, the numbers are quite interesting (click the link above to see the other charts and the rest of the data)

Of the 1.6 million bachelor's degrees awarded in 2008–09, over 50 percent were concentrated in five fields: business (22 percent), social sciences and history (11 percent), health professions and related clinical sciences (8 percent), education (6 percent), and psychology (6 percent) (see table A-40-1). The fields of visual and performing arts (6 percent), engineering and engineering technologies (5 percent), communication and communications technologies (5 percent), and biological and biomedical sciences (5 percent) represented an additional 21 percent of all bachelor's degrees awarded in 2008–09.

Overall, there were 33 percent more bachelor's degrees awarded in 2008–09 than in 1998–99 (an increase of 401,100 bachelor's degrees awarded). Bachelor's degrees awarded in the field of parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies had the largest percent change of all fields (from 16,500 to 31,700 degrees, a 92 percent change). The next largest percent change was in the field of security and protective services (from 24,600 to 41,800 degrees, a 70 percent change). Education was the only field in which fewer bachelor's degrees were awarded in 2008–09 than in 1998–99 (a negative percent change of 5 percent).

About 57 percent of all bachelor's degrees conferred in 2008–09 were awarded to females, which was about the same as the percentage awarded to females in 1998–99. Looking at the five most prevalent bachelor's degree fields, females earned between 49 and 85 percent of the degrees awarded in those fields. In 2008–09, females earned the smallest percentages of bachelor's degrees relative to males in the fields of engineering and engineering technologies (16 percent of these degrees were awarded to females) and computer and information sciences and support services (18 percent female), both of which are considered STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. From 1998–99 to 2008–09, there were changes in the percentages of bachelor's degrees conferred to females in several fields of study. For example, of all the bachelor's degrees conferred in the field of security and protective services, the percentage that were conferred to females was 50 percent in 2008–09, compared with 43 percent in 1998–99. In contrast, of all the bachelor's degrees conferred in the field of computer and information sciences and support services, the percentage conferred to females was 18 percent in 2008–09, compared with 27 percent in 1998–99.





Then we have College Majors vs income here.

Major Field	Unemployment Percent	25th % Earnings	Median % Earnings	75th % Earnings	Popularity
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY	19.5%	$25,000	$40,000	$61,000	168
MISCELLANEOUS FINE ARTS	16.2%	$26,000	$40,000	$49,000	164
UNITED STATES HISTORY	15.1%	$30,000	$50,000	$96,000	139
LIBRARY SCIENCE	15.0%	$23,000	$36,000	$49,000	159
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY	10.9%	$28,000	$35,000	$51,000	156
MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES	10.9%	$81,000	$86,000	$126,000	173
ARCHITECTURE	10.6%	$37,000	$60,000	$85,000	33
INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY	10.4%	$45,000	$62,000	$81,000	135
MISCELLANEOUS PSYCHOLOGY	10.3%	$30,000	$45,000	$71,000	120
LINGUISTICS AND COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE	10.2%	$30,000	$44,000	$70,000	90
COMPUTER ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY	9.5%	$39,000	$52,000	$75,000	114
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS	9.2%	$20,000	$36,000	$52,000	103
ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT	9.2%	$50,000	$71,000	$98,000	127
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	8.8%	$32,000	$45,000	$60,000	155
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS	8.5%	$38,000	$52,000	$87,000	72
HUMANITIES	8.4%	$30,000	$45,000	$62,000	118
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANIC REPAIRS AND TECHNOLOGIES	8.4%	$30,000	$44,000	$68,000	134
GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCES	8.2%	$34,000	$50,000	$74,000	68