ENGINEERING
Starting salaries to engineering majors remained
nearly flat. Their overall average salary rose just 0.3
percent to $62,719. Movement in starting salaries
by individual majors was split evenly, as half of the
reported disciplines showed increases and the other
half decreases. While the reigning top-paid major,
petroleum engineering, has a very high average
starting salary of $95,300, it had one of the lowest
increases, at just 1.9 percent. Industrial/manufacturing
engineering majors saw the highest increase of 9.1
percent, bringing their average starting salary to
$61,400.