There's nothing worse than spending years getting a degree and finding out you can't get a job. Here's information covering a diversity of possibilities including engineering, architecture, computers, and medicine as well as other scientific areas. Basic Physics Savvy Quiz Find out how good you are at basic physics concepts and free yourself from the evils physics misconceptions. The United States currently allows 195,000 new foreign professionals each year to enter the country on six year temporary work permits because the U.S. cannot train enough individuals for these jobs. While some use of foreign workers promotes a beneficial exchange of ideas, dependency is not a good strategy.
Professional jobs filled by foreign workers are some of the best paying in America.
They are primarily computer or engineering related. Physics training is a key component for entry into most of these jobs and yet the U.S. places little emphasis on physics education as shown in the figure below. The training bottleneck is not at the college level. Engineering and computer science tend to be popular majors for freshman. However, few actually graduate.