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Major to career finder Related careers for your major, from the official crosswalk.

Type your major to see the careers where this education may be relevant: the common occupational matches NCES and BLS list for it, with typical entry education, occupation pay and the skills those careers share.

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Updated Oct 28, 2026 · Data: NCES/BLS CIP-SOC 2020 · BLS EP 2025–35 · BLS OEWS May 2025 · O*NET 31.0
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Your major maps to related careers through the NCES/BLS crosswalk: the occupations programs in that field typically prepare people for. This finder lists them with each one's BLS typical entry education and the median pay of the whole occupation. The crosswalk is not a record of where graduates work, so use it to explore directions, not as a promise.

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What a related career means

Related careers are the occupations the crosswalk links to a program. They are common occupational matches, not a list of jobs a degree opens. Many people work in occupations their program is not linked to, and some linked occupations also ask for experience, a graduate degree or a state license.

BLS typical entry education is the level BLS says workers typically need to enter the occupation. It is typical, not a legal requirement, and employers set their own requirements.

Median pay is for everyone working in the occupation nationally, at every career stage, not for graduates of the program.

Skills overlap (“k of n related careers”) shows which O*NET skills and knowledge areas recur across the related careers, a hint at what the field has in common.

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Programs come from the CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk that NCES and BLS publish. In their words, programs in a CIP category “typically prepare individuals directly for jobs classified in the SOC category.” The crosswalk is not a record of the occupational outcomes of program completers, and a match does not mean every completer is prepared for every job in the occupation.

Coverage: 2,142 CIP 2020 programs. 1,718 map to at least one specific occupation outside college teaching; 152 map only to college teaching roles; 272 map to no specific occupation. Residual “all other” occupations are counted but not listed.

Each related career shows the BLS typical entry-level education (Employment Projections 2025–35; typical, not required), the BLS OEWS May 2025 national median pay and employment of the whole occupation (not of graduates), and the O*NET Job Zone. A figure BLS publishes only for a broader occupation is labelled with that occupation. Skills overlap counts how many related careers name each skill or knowledge area among their five highest-rated (O*NET 31.0 importance), printed as “k of n related careers”.

What this page can't tell you
  • Where graduates of a program actually work or what they earn: the crosswalk is not an outcomes record, and occupation pay is not graduate pay.
  • Whether a specific employer will consider your degree: employers set their own requirements.
  • Licensing: only registered nurse, CPA and public-school teacher licensing has been checked by TryHired; a row without a badge has not been checked.
Sources
  1. National Center for Education Statistics and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk (guidelines published March 2020; file retrieved 2026-10-25). U.S. government work.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35, typical education needed for entry (public domain).
  3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).
  4. O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.

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