The Hamilton Project: Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College
An interactive tool from the Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution. See also the full report on which this tool is based. See also this other interactive tool from the Hamilton project, which allows easy income comparisons between majors.
AAC&U date on long-term career outcomes in the humanities and social sciences
Graph from the AAC&U’s 2014 report “Liberal Arts Graduates and Employment: Setting the Record Straight.”
Some Qualitative Resources
Myths. Busted. Some Myths Are Hard To Bust MYTH: You can see the Great Wall of China from space. MYTH: Napoleon was short. MYTH: A degree in the humanities or social sciences won’t get you a job—certainly not a good…
ACS Career Data
Please note: The chart below uses 2013 ACS data, a one-year survey. For somewhat less recent data, but with a larger sample size, see similar statistics drawn from 2010-12 ACS data, which aggregates three years of surveys. In addition, that…
Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce
Salary rankings from The Economic Value of College Majors, by Anthony P. Carnevale Ban Cheah Andrew R. Hanson (Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce, 2015), 148-52. Download the full report
The Hamilton Project
The Hamilton Project: Career Earnings By College Major