Ready to hit the real world with your first entry level job? Finally, you will be making money, livin’ large. Well hold on a second. Before you make plans to move into that penthouse apartment in Manhattan, or start shopping for BMW’s, you might want to look below at the average starting salaries for your major.

Don’t get bummed out, Eating Ramen Soup and having three roommates isn’t that bad is it?

Hospitality services management: $36,480

Business administration/management: $42,048

Accounting: $45,656

Economics/finance:$45,112

Information sciences and systems: $48,593

Civil engineering: $46,023

Chemical engineering:$56,335.

Computer engineering: $53,651

Electrical engineering:$53,552

Mechanical engineering: $51,732

History:$32,697

Psychology:$30,218

Communications:$31,876

Political science and government:$32,665

Sociology:$30,944

English: $30,906

*#’s according to a 2006 survey