(New York, NY) -- A new Bankrate-dot-com report indicates that actuarial science.is the most valuable college major.
The study ranked 162 majors based on several factors including average annual income, unemployment rate and career paths that don't require schooling beyond a Bachelor's degree.
Actuarial science majors earn an average annual salary of more than 108-thousand a year, don't require advanced degrees and have an average unemployment rate of just over two percent.
Miscellaneous fine arts degrees were at the bottom of the list with an average salary of about 41-thousand-dollars and an unemployment rate of more than nine percent.