What jobs match my major?

Ididio Connects

We find ourselves in economic turmoil in 2020. Let’s explore the best job opportunities for your college major.

If you’re a college graduate and wondering what comes next, a great starting point is to look at what happened to people who graduated before you. In this quick study, for each college major we’ll answer the questions

Which jobs do most graduates find?
What are the highest-paying jobs that hire this major?

From our table of ideas, you can quickly link to Ididio’s career pages that share a more complete picture of each career’s match to your interests and personality.

You can always explore the connection between your major and possible careers using the program pages at Ididio, which you can access from our Program Explorer. But here, let’s go straight to the answers! Just follow the steps 1 - 2 - 3 below!

Here’s how to find the best job opportunities for your major

1) Use this drop-down menu to choose a degree category

Find degrees in this broad program area

All

2) Check the box for the major you’d like to see.

All Majors

Select the major’s name to go to Ididio’s program page.
Sort by any column by selecting the column title.

Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration

Nuclear and Industrial Radiology Technologies

Metallurgical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Mathematics and Computer Science

SOURCES:

2018 ACS microdata

3) Check out the careers held by the majors you selected.

Comparison of jobs for Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration majors

Each row compares salaries for majors with that career to the salaries of all majors.
Select any row to see Ididio’s associated career page.

Pharmacists

Physicians

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers

Specialized Managers

Medical and Health Services Managers

Specialized Life Scientists

Postsecondary Teachers

Specialized Physical Scientists

Registered Nurses

Pharmacy Technicians

Chief executives and legislators

SOURCES:

2018 ACS microdata

Methodology

We created degree and career details by aggregating the person-level data from the American Community Survey 5 year household data from the US Census Bureau.

To determine salaries for bachelor’s-only workers in this study we required the following of the person-level records: education at a bachelor’s and not graduate level, age 65 or younger, and weekly work hours of 35 or higher.