As the validity and soundness of the desired degree is increasingly under challenge facing uncertain job prospects, FindEmployment, have analyzed the most popular careers and salaries for graduates in the United Kingdom and the United States. Graduates with qualifications professional degrees have the most professional and positive earnings expectations. There are similarities to the top five topics studied in both countries and a distinct correlation between people who studied and the highest paying salaries offered to graduates entering the workforce.
Law, medicine and dentistry who dominated on both sides of the Atlantic by making an appearance on the issues that both countries studied and displayed in the higher u.s. wages. However, in the United Kingdom there is a deviation from the issues that the graduate studied and higher payment, with investment banking at the top of the boot list graduate salary.
Top 5 degree courses in the United States:
1. law
2. Medical
3. Pharmacy
4. Dental
5. physical therapy/therapist
Top 5 degree courses in the United Kingdom:
1. & Dental Medicine
2. Education
3. the veterinary
4. Biomedical & Neuroscience (science based subjects)
5. law
Top paying jobs in the United States graduate (median wage labour Dept of OUR 2009):
1. family doctor $ 161,000
2. the psychiatrist $ 160,000
3. the dentist $ 142,000
4. management consultant $ 114,000
5. $ 113,000 Attorney
Top-paid graduate jobs in United Kingdom (starting salary by high-fliers 2012):
1. investment banking £ 45,000
2. law £ 38,000
3. power £ 32,500 & Oil
4. Media £ 32,500
5. consultation with £ 31,500
According to a survey by the Association of graduate recruiters (AGR), the number of graduates who compete for every vacancy in the United Kingdom today is 85 applications per vacancy. In the u.s. the unemployment rate for college graduates was 3.9% in April, according to the Ministry of labour, which means graduates are employed now than there were at the start of the recession. However increasing demands to have a Bachelor's degree for low level jobs, meaning that their future students and students in particular, should consider job opportunities and salary potential of the most popular careers that are described above.
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