Most lucrative college degrees (Math is key)

This is a good article... but it seems incomplete without mentioning the possibility of a graduate degree. After all, and english major with a 3.9 gpa and a 99% lsat might not be in a position to make much money now, but in three years he or she might very well be a lawyer earning twice what his library-dwelling engineering major roomate is earning.

Of course, engineering majors who go on to get law degrees are probably in even greater demand, as they still have a scare skill/knowledge base... Do problem sets on properties of materials prepare you for law exams as well as a semester spent trying to make sense of Ulysses? Actually, hard to say.

I don't know many humanities or social science majors who just plan to stop there. We need to track a bit further, especially if we're trying to gauge the prospects of the "best and brightest..."

It's interesting to me that petroleum engineering and mining engineering have rocketed to the top. For as long as I can remember I don't think they were even in the top 10. Think it's a sustainable trend? Also, as a Computer Science student, let me say that it's always nice to see the average starting salary for my field go up. Mo' money, mo' ramen, as they say.

I read a cool story about somebody using Lisp to parse massive text output from a geological sounding device used by the oil explorers.

How does one go about finding one of these jobs?