Most lucrative college degrees

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Most lucrative college degrees
Average starting pay for college grads continues to rise, albeit with modest increases.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - College graduates are getting a bit more for their degrees as starting salaries keep rising -- with engineers and computer grads commanding the best gains.

The vast majority -- 85 percent -- of disciplines reporting changes in starting salary offers for the class of 2005 reported increases, according to the Winter 2005 survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

Engineering and computer science graduates saw the biggest gains overall. Civil engineering grads reported a 5.1 percent increase in their average starting salary, now at $43,159.

Starting pay for computer science graduates, on average, jumped 4.9 percent to $51,042, while information science grads are reporting a 3.9 percent, to $43,741.

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