Truth in Education: which majors go into which jobs?

Research from Conlon & Patel showing that "many more students expect to attain their major’s stereotypical career than actually work in that job: 

• 65% of prospective art majors expect to be artists (only 17% are), 
• 63% of biology majors expect to be doctors(23% are), 
• 42% of communications/journalism majors expect to be writers or journalists (4% are), 
• 62% of psychology majors expect to be counselors (21% are), 

BOTTOM LINE:

• Majors more likely to end in disappointment:  "—e.g., fine arts, humanities, communications, psychology—have both rare stereotypical careers and low-paying alternatives." 
• Majors less likely to end in disappointment: "STEM, business, education, and nursing, either because these majors’ stereotypical careers are objectively quite common or because wages are high even for those who end up in non-stereotypical careers."

Related Information on choice of majors (past blog posts)

• "Do what you are good at" commits the hidden-benefit fallacy
• Do Boys have a Comparative advantage in Math?
• Algorithmic Gender Bias?
• Clorox is outbidding Vanderbilt for ad space
• Is there a bubble in higher education?
• Marginal analysis and choice of majors