NEWS WIRE UNEQUAL WAGES Most Lucrative College Degrees College graduation does improve a person's income prospects. But all graduates aren't treated equally: What you majored in counts for a lot. Annual salary surveys by PayScale, Inc., confirm that a student majoring in engineering can expect to earn nearly twice the salary of a journalism major. What Does Your Major Pay? Major Median Starting Salary Chemical engineering $ 63,200 Computer engineering 61.400 Electrical engineering 60,900 Nursing 54,200 Physics 50.300 Economics 50,100 Finance 47.900 46.000 Accounting 43,000 Business 10,800 Marketing 40,800 Political science 39,900 Philosophy 39,200 History 36,500 Sociology 35.600 Journalism Source:"PayScale College Salary Report" www.payscale.com. 2018. Used with permission of PayScale, Inc. Assuming that a college graduate on average earns his orther MRP what is the MRP for a newly hired