Kansas University Medical Center's School of Nursing, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kan., Sept. 29, 2011.

Last week I shared a list of the top 25 highest paying majors, recently released by higher ed rankings and analysis company College Factual. Various categories of engineering filled almost the entire list.

College Factual has also compiled a list of the top 10 highest paying majors from non-STEM fields. Not all are offered at KU, but the top major is, and is in high demand: nursing. It doesn’t look like nursing enrollment has ballooned at KU quite as much as engineering has. Fall 2016 School of Nursing enrollment was 677, according to numbers provided by medical school spokeswoman Natalie Lutz. For the past 10 years, enrollment has toggled back and forth from counts as low as 631 to as high as 728. (Note the KU School of Nursing offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, as well as certificates.)

Here are the top 10 highest-paid non-STEM majors as reported by College Factual, with average early career salaries for each major. College Factual calculated the list based on salary estimates made with data from Payscale, and included only graduates with just bachelor’s degrees.

1.Nursing — $53,333

2.Construction management — $49,244

3.Economics — $46,000

4.Finance — $45,000

5.Real estate — $44,500

6.Accounting — $44,500

7.Public policy — $43,000

8.Business/managerial economics — $43,000

9.Dietetics and clinical nutrition services — $42,000

10.International business — $42,000

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