Doctor. Teacher. Lawyer. Nurse.

All careers individuals aspire to have, but some are superior to others.

Hard work pays off they say, yet some of the best college majors are considered the hardest in the US. Which holds the ability to land the career the holder chooses, but every major has its special difficulty level. In the long run, it is up to future college students to decide what’s best for them, it’s hard to know what is the best and worst major.

Yet other factors are considered in what are the best and worst majors. Notably, Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm, with its ability to process data and information in seconds, with near-perfect accuracy. Not only has this technology made freelancers obsolete. There is also the trend of Americans losing the appeal to college, how hard the major itself is, and finally the unemployment.

However, college is still worth it, it just depends on the degree you pick.

STEM, Health, and Law majors commonly hold the most value, having the most income of all the college majors. So it should come as no surprise that one of the best college majors is Health Services. Even though STEM and Law majors cannot be overlooked, it’s to be said that the medical world, keeps society from collapsing.

Doctors, nurses, and surgeons, each have their role to play to keep the world spinning. As the world population grows past 8 billion, the United States population reaches over 336,286,560 million people. This also means an infinite money glitch if big pharma isn’t stealing life savings away with big bills that nearly suck the living soul out of wallets (another topic for another day). Yet, that also means the medical field will never be out of work, with humans always getting themselves hurt one way or another, people will still need doctors to stick a needle with anti-biotics on the sick, surgeons to operate any broken bones, and nurses to keep the records in check and patch kids with ice packets. So overall, the medical field will be the better option, most likely the nursing route if students are undecided on what to do exactly in the medical area.

Just be warned that there will be a lot of anatomy, physics, biology, ethics, etc. Do individual research, plan, and prepare for 5-8 years of studying and internships before entering the medical field.

After directing the best, the worst must also be inspected. After careful consideration, the worst major in college comes from one of the most prominent areas; STEM, or aerospace engineering.

Engineers built modern society. Everything we touch and use comes from engineers’ minds and hands. The world has never been the same with engineers working in their fields, for thousands of years, they invented smart cars, space travel, architecture, and redefining physics. Without engineers, there wouldn’t be any health services, law firms, or jobs.

“Without engineers, our society would not be able to function because it would be impossible to build, maintain, and operate all the necessary facilities. In the last few decades, engineers have been in charge of developing solutions to the most pressing problems,” the CIO Views article said.

Nothing good comes easy, with engineering routes being the most challenging degree, so be warned, if you hate math and science, don’t force yourself to work a job that will become undesirable. The salaries are great, with the best-paying college degrees coming from engineering majors such as Aerospace, chemical, electrical, industrial, mechanical, civil, etc. Unfortunately, the path toward those salaries is nightmares if you’re able to sleep, compared to other better-salaried majors such as business, computer science (another nightmare choice), finance, and pharmacy. With Calculus 1,2,3, Physics, CAD, and Chemistry, these are the baby steps. Soon during the second and third year, there’s gonna be a lot of thermodynamics, dynamics, electrical circuits, and a whole bunch of aerospace classes during the fourth year.

The common theme when it comes to STEM is that the harder the major the more income, as with aerospace engineers could make up $129,000 annually. Although rookie engineers according to CBS typically earn between 72k-112k, that is still more than 94%  of the other majors listed, the only 4 majors higher than aerospace are, Chemical, Computer engineers, and computer science. So if the plan is to make life easy, don’t pick aerospace, as the rewards will be sleep deprivation, stress, and lots of studying to do for most of your college life.

Surprisingly, “At fourth place, 7.8% of recent Aerospace Engineering majors have not found a job—a surprising statistic since engineering is regarded as one of the more stable majors to study,” Marcus Lu, finance writer for Visual Capitalist said.

Growing up is hard, it is the fear of the unknown, yet that is what makes life so exhilarating. Pick the major that is of interest, success is different for everyone, one’s future is their own.