College degrees.

Employers want new hires in these areas:

Accounting         51.6%
Electrical
engineering        48.4%
Mechanical
engineering        45.6%
Business
administration/
Management         45.2%
Economic/
Finance            41.5%
Computer
Science            33.9%
Computer
engineering        29.0%
Marketing/
Marketing
management         29.0%
Chemical
engineering        26.6%
Information
sciences and
systems            25.8%

Note: Table made from bar graph.

Note: Multiple responses were permitted

Source: Spring 2005 Salary Survey (responses from 254 service-sector
manufacturing and government/nonprofit employers). Reprinted with
permission of the National Association of Colleges and Employers,
www.naceweb.org.