If you are after a high-paying job and you picked an engineering major at UT-Tyler, or one of these degree programs at Tyler Junior College, you're well on your way.
What other college majors will lead to the most money after graduation?
Every state has cities where the money seems to flow more easily than others, and the spot in Texas that has the most trouble getting on its financial feet is in the southern tip, near McAllen and Brownsville.
In other words, there IS opportunity in Tyler and Longview. We're not the richest cities in Texas, but not the poorest either.
If you're going into college this fall as a computer science major, good for you. That will lead to a job quickly after you graduate, and there are several other hot majors right now that will let you reap benefits later. Here they are.
We've got lots of home builders, truck drivers, barbecue chefs, and CEOs in Texas, but there's one job that's overly popular compared to all the others.
There is such a thing as over-saturating the market.
For example, in Tyler there are five WalMart locations.
In Longview, there are eight.
And, really, that's only scratching the surface. When we explore the whole of East Texas, it seems that there is one on every corner...
In a time when jobs are scarce, a poultry company has their eyes on expanding into East Texas. According to a press release from the City of Palestine, Sanderson Farms is looking to build a poultry complex in Anderson County with a feed mill coming to Freestone County.