Major vs.

Salary
Christina Meyer, Paige Elder, Aya Asse

Are college students more concerned about the money

theyll make in the future, or are they pursuing a career
they love?
Gender
The options offered we Male, Female, Other, and Prefer not to say
Everyone chose either male or female with 75% (94) female and 25% (31) male
A reason being why the majority of the students are female because this is a
course run through the teachers college, so most majors are in education, which
is a female dominated career
Looking at our overall data, when comparing percentages and totals, the
number one concern for both genders was passion (77% and 83%). But when it
concerned the other 2 responses of salary and job outlook, men were more
concerned with the salary (16% M, 5% F) and women with job outlook (7% M,
12% F)
Gender
Grade Level
The respondents were asked their grade level. Options Passion:
given were freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. Freshmen: 81.54%
About 52% (65) were freshmen, 22% (28) Sophomore: 82.14%
sophomores, 20% (25) juniors, and 6% (7) seniors. Junior: 84.00%
Senior: 71.43%
Based off of the data, one theory can be that the the
Job Outlook:
majority of people who changed their major based off
F: 6.15%
salary or job outlook while the others changing their
S: 10.71%
major for passion are underclassmen is because the J: 12.00%
farther they get into school the more concerned they Se: 0%
are about supporting themselves after graduation. Salary:
F: 12.31%
S: 7.14%
J: 4.00%
Se: 28.57%
Grade Level
College
The majority of people belong to the Teachers College
It can be assumed the reason that people are in the teachers college for passion
because the profession of an educator has a reputation for being a low-paying
job
College
Passion v Salary v Job Outlook
Passion:82%
Salary:8%
Job outlook:10%
These numbers look how we expected them to
Passion v Salary v Job Outlook
Debt
Average expected debt came out to around $17,000 for all 125 responses
If the average debt was on the higher end we anticipated more people to be
concerned about the salary.
Minimum debt: $0
Maximum debt: $120,000
Salary Concern
Average answer was a 3 out of 5
Major Change
Majority said no (104)
21 said yes
Reason For the Change
The main reason why people changed was due to the fact that they found a
greater interest in a separate major (11)
Salary next highest answer, but still low (4)
Lack of interest and job outlook tied for last (3)
Overall Analysis
We gathered 125 responses over all
Credits
Debt image:
http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2015/11/02/5-surprisi
ng-sources-of-debt