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Orianna Rosa Royle

Want to earn nearly $100,000 within 5 years of graduating? Study engineering, Fed research says

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With college setting students back an average of $38,270 per year, young people today are banking on their college degree opening doors to more than house parties and sororities—specifically, to top-paying jobs. But whether they succeed at this depends greatly on what they choose to study.

That’s because one major study from the New York Federal Reserve shows that those wishing to earn the big bucks after college may want to consider studying some form of engineering.

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