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The most valuable college degree has been named

Posted at 7:39 AM, Sep 10, 2018
and last updated 2018-09-10 07:39:54-04

There is a new study on the most valuable college major and you might have never heard of it.

Bankrate.com says that actuarial science is the most valuable college major.

Graduates with majors in it earn an average salary of more than $108,000 and have a better than average unemployment rate.

Zoology comes in second and nuclear engineering rounds out the top three most valuable majors.

As for the least valuable college major, miscellaneous fine arts took that spot.

Graduates in this degree earn the second lowest average annual salary at just over $40,000 and have the highest unemployment rate.