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Member 303607 · 03-24-2012, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by sacredrage

You can argue or you can let the facts speak for themselves:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_1...loyment-rates/

Psychology doesn't just make the top of the the list - they break it up into various sub disciplines and it makes the list several times.

The thing about that article is that those specialties, I believe, are all at the undergraduate level. Personally, I don't know any program offering a clinical, social, or I/O psych degree after 4 years, which is probably leading to the rather large unemployment numbers.

The report itself (http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi...al.update1.pdf) shows that as a whole, recent psychology and social work grads combined have an unemployment rate of 7.6%, which drops to 3.4% for graduate degree holders in those fields.

And while 7.6% isn't great, it's not much higher than most other degrees on the list, and is actually much lower than humanities and even some engineering majors.