Economics is a pretty good major from a career perspective. Its graduates’ income only trails behind engineering and pharmacy, ahead of all other majors. Those from Hong Kong might find it surprising that economics major faired so well. The answer to that is, this study uses data from U.S., a country where medicine and law require postgraduate study, and where most of the best business schools do not offer undergraduate studies.

Extra: Within Social Sciences, “the major with the lowest median earnings is Sociology, while the highest is Economics.” Poor sociologists, pun intended.

大學主修經濟其實不錯，收入只在工程系和藥劑學之下。當然，「工程系」能和「高收入」拉上關係，數據明顯不是香港的。在美國，醫科和法律都不是本科課程，大部份排名高的商學院亦沒有本科課程。

又：在社會科學內，「讀社會學收入最低，讀經濟學最高」。名符其實 poor sciologists。

http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf