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Hefty salaries – Montana Tech degrees are top wage earners

August 23, 2009 /

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When Jennifer Olsen chose petroleum engineering as her major at Montana Tech http://www.mtech.edu/ , she wasn’t focused on the salary waiting upon entering the work force.

Rather, the 2004 Tech graduate said, she was more influenced by her father, who earned the same degree more than three decades ago and has spent his career in the field.

"I actually came in with a biased opinion," Olsen said in a telephone interview from Billings, where she works for JAKE Oil and Gas Consultants LLC. "He definitely steered me that way, and it turned out OK in the end." For the 28-year-old Olsen, it turned out more than OK. Despite her nonchalant attitude about the money she’d earn, Olsen chose the four-year degree that fetches the highest salary right out of school.

By Nick Gevock

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