what is the pay rate between each diploma depends on?

Question

i was browsing through a table and the score one requires to enroll into accountacy and law have a higher cut off point or GPA than their engineering counterpart.
However,upon graduation,these engineering students received a higher pay than those who graduate from accountancy or law.
what do u think are the reasons for these?

Answer 1

Fewer people do engineering than law and accounting, so the cut off marks are in fact lower. In fact in the demand ares, such as business, the cut off point has been steadily increasing because more and more people are insterested in that degree.

Also, it will depend on the particular school you are talking about. A school that specialises in law but not engineering is likely to have what you have seen. However a school that specilising in Engineering might be the reverse.

Not everyone is cut out to be an Engineer. Engineering can involve a lot of manual work in dirty and difficult situations. It also requires subjects than many people find difficult, such as mathematics and physics.

However in all these professions, the top people earn the top dollars. I have met a lot of accountants who are no longer working as accountants because they hate it. In addition, while accounting is one of the best jobs for finding long term stable work, you have less chance of being a rising star.

Top laywers earn stupid amounts of money.

Answer 2

i don't think there's a clear cut answer here. Normally, the higher a GPA that's required to get into a particular field of learning has more to do with the number of spaces open in such a school and the number of people competing for those spaces than the pay people will receive after graduating.