BANGALORE: Despite of gains in educational attainment, big pay gap among college majors are bugging most of the recent grads. While fresh grads with a technical degree are the most sought after who enjoy healthy pay packages, the same does not hold for grads with a non-technical or other degree. 

And if you want to know how much your passion, interest, and aptitude for your degree will pay-off, here is the list of top tech degrees that pay you the highest as compiled by Business Insider.

#Electrical Engineering
Median starting pay: $66,500
Median mid-career pay: $113,000
When students are given options to choose from the various branches of engineering, most of them tend to choose Electrical as electrical engineering is ‘evergreen’, in terms of job prospects and the future scope.
However, now this is also the branch, which gives you the chance to earn heftily as well. Electrical engineering is one of the oldest branches of engineering, and dates back to the late 19th century.
It deals with the technology of electricity. Electrical engineers work on a wide range of components, devices and systems, from tiny microchips to huge power station generators.

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