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Job market may be favorable to all majors among UH grads Studies have shown saleries for liberal arts do not plateau as early as those for STEM may Demetrious Mahone Staff writer
With unemployment on the rise, students have been enrolling in universities with a different attitude toward choosing a major. A study done in 2010 by Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, showed the median income for those whose highest degree was a high school diploma was about $32,000, while those
with a bachelor’s degree made about $55,000. Studies have also revealed a nationwide trend wherein liberal arts majors experience a steady upwards progression in salary, while the salaries of technical majors start high but plateau early, said David Small, executive director of University Career Services. This growth in salary for liberal arts majors is comforting to some students, like media production senior Angie Brown, who is graduating in December.
“That’s good to know,” Brown said. “I don’t regret getting this degree because I’m passionate about it, but as I’m out there looking for jobs, I’m thinking I may end up having to go back to school for something more practical — like nursing — where a job is a sure thing.” The trend also makes sense, said Tyler Brittain, a mechanical engineering sophomore. “It makes sense that STEM majors have a higher starting salaries in order to encourage
more to (go into) the field of natural sciences. STEM students are less plentiful, so because of the demand they have a higher start,” Brittain said. “Because of the higher start, the salary can’t go much higher. CLASS students are more plentiful so they have a lower starting salary and to make up for the disparity they have more opportunities for pay increases.” One of the most useful reasons JOBS continues on page 3
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Robertson deserves crowd LIFE+ARTS
Artist to talk inspiration SPORTS
Early voting shuttles transport students to polls E
arly voting for the 2012 presidential and congressional elections has started and TXPIRG and UH have joined to provide early voting shuttles for students. Shuttles will run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
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from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will be located outside the University Center. Ody Ezeigwe (right), a psychology sophomore, boards one of the buses to go to one of Houston’s polling locations to vote.
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Days until Halloween,
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