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【本稿费用以最终中文字数计算】不要打乱顺序，图文对照起来，交稿的时候直接交中文整理好的，务必做到图文一致。因为图片中的英文无法添加上去，所以用附注的形式附在表后，可以通过括号的形式。13 charts that explain why your college major mattersStudents pay a lot of attention to where they go to college. But the evidence suggests that its your major, not your college, that makes the biggest difference – at least when it comes to whether you find a job, how much money you make, and maybe even how happy you are in the office. The good news is theres more information out there than ever on what choosing a major could mean. The American Community Survey now asks people?about what they majored in. Payscale releases annual reports of what graduates?earn. And other surveys try to get at the less quantifiable stuff — like whether graduates are fulfilled in their jobs and have meaningful lives. Heres what weve learned from that information.MoneyPayscale/Vox Majors making the most money earlyGoing to college isnt really a get-rich-quick scheme — the opportunity cost of four years not on the job market takes care of that. But if your biggest ambition is to make a lot of money right away, you should be an engineer. Actually, you should be a petroleum engineer; the gap between that major and the rest is pretty astonishing. In general, though, jobs in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — are very well-compensated in the first years after college.Payscale/Vox Majors making the most money laterThe picture doesnt look as different at mid-career for many majors as you might expect. The average person in this data set is 44 years old and has 15 years of experience. Petroleum engineering is still on top (getting oil out of the ground is, unsurprisingly, a very lucrative skill). But a few other majors have crept up the ranks, particularly economics. Still, the picture is pretty clear: if whats most important to you is a high salary without needing to pursue graduate education, engineering is a good choice.Payscale/Vox Majors making the least at mid-care