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[quote=Anonymous]People can give their anecdotes all they want, but companies are saying that they want Eng/CS and business/finance majors.  Not a humanities major among the list. It's all STEM and Business.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/the-10-most-in-demand-bachelors-degrees-no-1-isnt-engineering.html

[quote]The Winter 2026 Salary Survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE, collected responses from 150 member organizations from Oct. 8 through Nov. 30, 2025.

Here are the 10 most in-demand bachelor’s degrees, according to NACE’s report, along with the percent of responding firms that said they have plans to hire graduates with each degree from the class of 2026.[/quote]

10. Human Resources: 40%
9. Marketing: 44%
8. Logistics/Supply Chain: 44.7%
7. Information Sciences and Systems: 48%
6. Electrical Engineering: 51.3%
5. Business Administration/Management: 58.7%
4. Accounting: 58.7%
3. Computer Science: 60%
2. Mechanical Engineering: 61.3%
1. Finance: 61.3%

And salaries for those majors are going up.   Salaries for social sciences are expected to decline.

[quote]NACE’s report also found that annual base salary projections for 2026 college grads show an increase across nearly all major categories of study included in the survey.
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Only social sciences show a projected decrease in starting salary from 2025[/b]. The rest — computer science; engineering; mathematics and statistics; business; agriculture and natural resources; and communications — all show increased projected starting salaries from last year.

[b]Computer science, which has the highest overall average salary, for example, has a 2026 projection of $81,535, up 6.9% from $76,251 last year.[/b][/quote][/quote]

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