People With These College Majors Get The Biggest Pay Raises

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It pays to major in mathematics.

When deciding what to study in college, it's important to consider the earning and growth potential for jobs associated with each major.

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To help you figure that out, Payscale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database with more than 40 million salary profiles, looked at the difference between starting salary (less than five years of experience) and mid-career pay (10 or more years of experience) by college major, to determined the 13 majors with the largest salary growth.