What each major actually pays — before you pick one.
Path. takes the numbers colleges don't put in brochures and writes them up like a friend would. 90-second read per major. No quiz. No signup to read.
Computer Science
You write instructions. The computer runs them. That's it.
A short, honest brief on every major — written the way an older friend would tell you.
Most career sites are either sales copy for colleges or AI-generated slop. We wrote every page by hand, cited every number, and left the uncomfortable parts in.
Pretend there's a “right” major.
- No quizzes that spit out “you should be a graphic designer.”
- No rankings, no “Top 10” listicles, no paid placements.
- No “find your passion” — that's not how adults pick jobs.
- No signup walls to read the shape of a major.
Show the numbers in the same order, every time.
- Median pay, 10-year growth, anchor role, where it's hiring.
- The catch — what sucks about this path, in plain language.
- Colleges ranked by ROI, not by brand recognition.
- Every stat is a click away from its federal source.
You, mostly. Your parents too.
- Juniors and seniors staring at the Common App.
- Parents trying to understand “is psych still a thing?”
- Counselors who've read enough Naviance printouts for one life.
- Anyone considering a gap year, trade school, or switching majors.
This is a whole major page.
Every one of the 457majors we're writing gets exactly this treatment — same sections, same order, same depth. Click through to read it live.
Open the real page →Computer Science.
You write instructions. The computer runs them. That's basically the whole deal.
Four steps. No funnel. No ads.
We took the shape of a good Wikipedia article and crossed it with the tone of a friend who already works in the field.
Pick a major that sounds like it might fit.
Don't overthink. You can come back. We're not tracking you.
Read the quick read — 8 cards, about 90 seconds.
Hero numbers, careers, top colleges, the honest catch.
Dig into the full brief when you're hooked.
Day-in-the-life, salary by seniority, market signals, real FAQs.
Compare 2 or 3 side-by-side.
Same numbers, same order, no sales copy, no "wellness-adjacent."
We looked at what already exists. It's not great.
Not a takedown — these all have their place. But if you want a short, honest, free brief on a major, there's a real gap.
| short · honest · cited | BigFutureCollege Board | ChatGPTor equivalent | A counselor$2k–$8k | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where numbers come from | ●BLS, NCES, Scorecard — cited inline. | ○College marketing pages. | ○Model guesses. Nothing cited. | ○Their personal anecdote. |
| Tone | ●Like an older friend who works in the field. | ○School-website neutral. | ○Confidently wrong. | ○"Have you considered law?" |
| Honest downsides | ●Explicit section on every page. | ○Absent. | ○Glossed over. | ○Depends on the counselor. |
| Price | ●Free. No account to read. | ○Free via school. | ○$20/mo for the good one. | ○$2k–$8k per package. |
| Time to a useful answer | ●~90 seconds. | ○A guided hour. | ○Three follow-up prompts. | ○Three $300 sessions. |
| Will it try to sell you? | ●No. No ads, no affiliate college links. | ○To colleges in the network. | ○To a subscription. | ○To more sessions. |
What people say after they've read one.
First site that didn't try to quiz me or sell me a planner. I read two majors in a bus ride.
The "honest catch" section is what I'd been trying to say for a year. Now he's reading them himself.
I send the link instead of printing Naviance packets. Kids actually open it.
The first career site I've read that respects students enough to tell them what the job actually pays— and what's bad about it. This is what we've been missing.
Every number points back to a federal dataset.
We don't make up statistics, we don't estimate, and we don't average four conflicting sources to get something plausible.
BLS OEWS · May 2024
Every “median pay,” “job count,” and “10-year growth” figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics release — the same dataset the government uses for labor policy.
College Scorecard · 2023
ROI, median earnings by college-and-major, debt at graduation, and completion rate all come from the Department of Education's College Scorecard — pulled via the public API, not scraped from brochures.
O*NET 28.3 + NCES IPEDS
“What you'd actually do Monday” comes from O*NET's task dataset for each occupation. Grad counts by major come from NCES IPEDS. When a state cell has < 30 grads, we suppress the number instead of guessing.