Dive Brief:
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Using data from College Factual, USA Today found that the five most popular college majors in the U.S. are business administration and management, general psychology, nursing, general biology, and teacher education.
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Rounding out the top 10 are criminal justice and corrections, accounting, liberal arts and sciences, English, and history.
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Not surprisingly, at midcareer, the highest-paid graduates with bachelor’s degrees from the majors on the top 10 list come from accounting, at an average of $75,100 per year, according to data USA Today gathered from PayScale.
Dive Insight:
Nursing has the highest average starting salary: $53,300. Salary information isn’t available for teacher education, but for the related education major, starting average annual salary for grads is $33,800 — lower than any other major on the list. Obviously, the majority of the most popular majors are broad enough to allow graduates to pursue quite a range of careers.
