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The Road Not Taken · Real graduate data

You pick a major.
Where does that road go?

Choose a college major and scroll through the next twenty years — who you become, how wide your road is, how steady the money. Then see the life you'd have lived on the road not taken.

There's no best road.
Only the one you can live with.

Every major trades something for something else — money for meaning, a wide road for a sure one. The data can't choose for you. It can only show you the trade.

See this major in full → Is it worth the cost? →
↺ Walk a different road
Earnings, debt & payback from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (field-of-study, real graduates — not survey or visa data). Major→occupation links from the NCES CIP–SOC Crosswalk. Occupation pay & growth from BLS OEWS & Employment Projections. Twenty-year totals are illustrative projections from median start pay at assumed real-growth rates — a range, not a forecast of any one person's life.