The Highest Paying College Majors For 2022

Every young person who graduates from college eagerly awaits the day they get their first real job in the field they spent all those hours studying for. As many recent grads may know it can be hard to get a good-paying job fresh out of school. Here's the list of the top-paying college majors for 2022, spoiler alert: you've got to be pretty dang smart.

1. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2. Physician Assistant Studies
3. Petroleum Engineering
4. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
5. Nuclear Engineering
6. Metallurgical Engineering
7. Computer Systems Engineering
8. Mining Engineering
9. Aeronautics and Astronautics
10. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering