Much better data on what people actually do with their majors has been gathered by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. This initiative, published earl

Much better data on what people actually do with their majors has been gathered by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. This initiative, published earlier in 2017, looks at career paths for about three million people, major by major. A link is here: http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/median_earnings_for_largest_occupations http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/median_earnings_for_la... What Brookings/Hamilton observes ... and the NYT overlooks ... is that lots of people with STEM majors find work in relevant fields that happen to be classified in irrelevant ways. For example, math majors tend to show up as financial analysts, actuaries, high school math teachers, etc. There's a lot of quant work on Wall Street these days, all of which is classified as financial sector work, even though it's STEM-intensive and miles away from gabbing about mutual funds with retirees.