May 19, 2000

Average Salary Rises for Liberal-Arts Graduates

Revenge of the liberal-arts major.

The 90's were a tough decade for students majoring in the liberal arts. While they followed the usual adult wisdom -- take a broad array of courses, acquire the critical-thinking skills that employers covet -- many classmates who never left the computer lab went on to strike it rich.

But the days of geometric increases in starting salaries for computer-science and computer-engineering majors may be over.

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