College Graduates’ Financial Satisfaction, by Field of Bachelor’s Degree, 2019
College Graduates’ Financial Satisfaction, by Field of Bachelor’s Degree, 2019
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With the exception of engineering on the high side and the arts on the low side, from 46% to 55% of each field’s graduates agreed they had “enough money to do everything I want to do.” Conversely, from 31% to 41% of the graduates from those “typical” fields reported they had worried about money in the past seven days.
Graduates from the humanities, arts, and behavioral/social sciences were similar in that less than half of graduates felt they had enough money, while slightly more than 40% had worried about money. Curiously, however, a majority of education graduates felt they had enough money—a share similar to that of several higher-earning fields—even though graduates from the field had the lowest median earnings.15
Endnotes
- 15Gallup Alumni Survey, 2019.