Sujet : Re: degrees
De : '''newspam''' (at) *nospam* nonad.co.uk (Martin Brown)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 24. Oct 2024, 12:10:58
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On 21/10/2024 15:53, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
john larkin wrote:
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Which_Degrees_Are_Worth_the_Most.jpg?itok=WW54ovtk
Lifetime ROI? Does not make sense.
It is a rather utilitarian approach to academic study.
If an EE degree gives you $571k over a lifetime, then it's an extra $15k
per year.
It seems a low to me from the anecdotal sample of graduates I know personally. Also I would be surprised if the numbers were accurate to even one significant figure given the huge variance in graduate income.
There is a big difference between staying in academia and working industry so that the distribution in the hard sciences is bimodal. My starting salary working in industry as a software engineer was about the same as my supervisor's in academia. It also went up more quickly and sooner than the academics that I stay in touch with.
If you were entirely motivated by maximising your income then highly numerate rocket scientists went off to work in the city destabilising the Stock exchange with high frequency trading algorithms.
There are always counter examples who left school at 16 and made a fortune. The most prominent UK ones are Alan Sugar and Richard Branson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sugarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_BransonI know a few highly paid linguists and rugby coaches too so whilst the average income for their sector may be low if you are *really* good at it then it is a very good living for the best of the best.
-- Martin Brown
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