(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 31, 2009 ) Fort Lauderdale Florida - For those people that are picturing pulling into the bank right after receiving their degree then you definitely need to know which degrees result in the highest starting salary. Sadly, it is only logical for the high earning college degrees to be the most difficult to attain and the most avoided by the college students since they are believed to ‘rob’ their social lives since they are too demanding.

Research conducted by NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) has revealed the 15 highly paid college degrees in 2009 after conducting a survey in 200 college career centers. As it has been in recent years, math oriented majors have scooped the top positions. This years’ highest paying degree is Petroleum Engineering with an average starting salary of $83,121 per annum. This has been attributed to the scarcity of oil as well as the fact that petroleum is among the major sources of energy, not only in the US but in the world as a whole.

Ed Koc, NACE’s Director of Research states that, “Math is at the crux of who gets paid…” If you have those skills, you are an extremely valuable asset. We don't generate enough people like that in this country." From that statement it is evident that top students in math related fields shouldn’t have a problem securing jobs in the harshly competitive job market. However, the “average” graduates may not pocket fat paychecks in their first year out of college and landing a job may not be so easy. Nevertheless, Farnoosh Torabi, employment expert and Quicken blog editor, re-assures engineers and math majors by stating that, “It's a tech-driven world, and demand [for engineers] is only going to grow… You can't say that about many fields, especially in a recession.”

Engineering majors scoop the top earning slots and this is evident since only 3 out of the top 15 high earning majors as revealed by NACE report aren’t engineering majors. They include: Computer Science, Actuarial Science and Construction Management.
2009’s Top Earning College Degrees
• Petroleum Engineering - $ 83,121
• Chemical Engineering - $64,902
• Mining Engineering - $64,404
• Computer Engineering - $61,738
• Computer Science - $61,407
• Electrical Engineering - $60,125
• Mechanical Engineering - $58,766
• Industrial Engineering - $58,358
• Systems Engineering - $57,438
• Engineering Technology - $56,447
• Actuarial Science - $ 56,320
• Aeronautical Engineering - $56,311
• Agricultural Engineering - $54,352
• Biomedical Engineering - $54,158
• Construction Management - $53,199

The tech-related fields are very high earners compared to liberal-arts related fields which form majority of the job market earning as low as $29,000 per annum. The laws of Economics on supply and demand apply in this case since when supply is high and demand is low, prices (salaries) are low and when the supply is low and demand is high the prices (salaries) are high.

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