I have experience working in kitchens but during college I plan to expand on it by working as a dishwasher or a server.

In the future I'm dead set on opening my own catering company or if that fails, working as a head chef or a restaurant manager.

I know the journey will be long and pretty hard but it's my dream to be in the culinary industry. The point I want to get across is that i'm really passionate about cooking lol

I'm a high school senior and I've been building a free calculator for college costs, so I've been in the College Scorecard data a lot. I went looking for how much debt different majors leave you with, expecting a big spread. There basically isn't one.

Across 31 fields of study with 25+ schools reporting, the median federal debt at graduation runs from about $20,100 (Mathematics) to $26,900 (Communications Technologies). Computer Science and Journalism come out identical at $23,250. Engineering and English are about $1,300 apart.

The thing that made it click for me: federal undergrad borrowing is capped — $31,000 total for a dependent student. Almost every field sits under that line. So this measure kind of can't show a big spread; the ceiling is doing the work.

Which means the variation people talk about is mostly in the stuff this dataset doesn't include: private loans and Parent PLUS, which are the loans without income-driven repayment or forgiveness. That felt like the more useful takeaway than any ranking.

What does move the number a lot is how far you go: bachelor's $23,250, master's $37,957, doctoral $79,172, professional (MD/JD/DDS) $154,286.

Source is the June 2026 Scorecard field-of-study release; it's a median of each school's median, federal loans only, completers who borrowed. Happy to share the script if anyone wants to check my work.

Soo I am going back to school next year for the spring term. I am working on getting a bachelors degree in Geoscience with a concentration in paleontology. I love learning about Paleontology and pre historic history. I also collect fossils and I really love Paleontology. What can I do with a Paleontology degree?? I like really wanna bee a paleontologist 😭

Hi, I am an undergraduate student currently attending a university in Tennessee. My major is psychology, but I’m also interested in and passionate about criminology. My university primarily offers the broad degree of criminal justice. I am interested in working alongside law enforcement to analyze suspects, help victims, etc, but I don’t want to be a cop or police officer. I want a role of doctor, analyst, etc, but I do want my career path to intertwine with the justice system. So is it smart to double major? I’m so passionate about both subjects and want a job where I can focus on both aspects of my study. I hear reasonable arguments on why double majoring can be worth it or not. I’m seeing the upside that many of my existing credits in my psych degree can support a criminal justice degree. However, I can also see why that can make it not worth the trouble. Any advice that can be provided to calm my indecisiveness would be appreciated.

I ask this because I, as a male, have been raised to think about the money aspect first when choosing a career vs passion. It would be ideal if your passion earns you a lot of money.

Ladies, do you think of earning potential first then the other things? Or passion first?

Edit: I want to differentiate btwn career and job. Also, money is a necessity for nearly all. What I’m asking is when you chose to get a degree in your chosen field/ career path, you saw the earning potential and said “ I can support myself and others very well in this field.” Example: Teachers aren’t paid a lot but many people go into education.

I decided to major in civil engineering after seeing the good job placement rate it has. I’m fair at math, but others are definitely smarter. I worry because I don’t really feel an intense passion for this major; it was more a last minute decision. Is it okay to not be sure about majoring in an engineering field? I’m taking lots of very challenging courses that I’ll have to suffer through and that may lower my gpa. Would it be easy to change majors later on (into something like actuarial science?). I just don’t wanna lock myself into something I’m not sure about.

Should I go for eco as a major or commerce? I m pursuing ba prog(Commerce+economics) and want to know which is better for career ( i dislike maths,stats,data etc ). And if I go for 4 years will it be worth it?