What you major in can have a big impact on your earning potential.
Legacy Online School, a K-12 online school, combed through data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers to see which degrees yield the highest starting salaries for recent graduates.
Unsurprisingly, it found that STEM majors tend to make the most right out of college.
Check out which 8 majors have the highest mean starting salaries.
Military technology majors net a mean starting salary of $66,505.
Business majors net a mean starting salary of $66,578.
Transportation majors net a mean starting salary of $67,496.
Engineering Technology majors net a mean starting salary of $69,162.
Math majors net a mean starting salary of $79,859.
Engineering majors net a mean starting salary of $80,085.
Maintenance & Repair majors net a mean starting salary of $90,162.
Computer & Information Science majors net a mean starting salary of $91,411.
