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How's that STEM education working out?
Much of the public enthusiasm for STEM education rests on the assumption that these fields are rich in job opportunity. Some are, some aren’t. STEM is an expansive category, spanning many disciplines and occupations, from software engineers and data scientists to geologists, astronomers and physicists.
What recent studies have made increasingly apparent is that the greatest number of high-paying STEM jobs are in the “T” (specifically, computing).
Earlier this year, Glassdoor, a jobs listing website, ranked the median base salary of workers in their first five years of employment by undergraduate major. Computer science topped the list ($70,000), followed by electrical engineering ($68,438). Biochemistry ($46,406) and biotechnology ($48,442) were among the lowest paying majors in the study, which also confirmed that women are generally underrepresented in STEM majors.
So study cybersecurity, not slime molds.
(Score: 4, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 03 2017, @09:59PM (1 child)
The summer after my freshman year I had job doing data analysis for an astronomer. I was the third coauthor on all three of the papers we wrote. (We measured the ages of some globular clusters.)
My friend Regan worked for several years for a UC Berkeley nutrition researcher, mostly dissecting rat intestines than photographing them in an electron microscope.
She never got her name on any of the papers.
Finally she begged me to tell her how she could make more money. "Try coding".
Now she's a director at a respectable company.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:08AM
... did you at least find $5?