Which degrees will get you the most money at the University of Arizona?

It's no surprise an engineer makes more than a librarian, but there's a little more to choosing a career than that. Many would say it's worth the lower pay to love what you do.

However, just as mothers once said, "It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man," even if you're a librarian at heart, maybe you can learn to love engineering. Loving computer sciences, mathematics and statistics or business also would serve you well in Arizona.

Then, of course, you must decide which of Arizona's public universities would serve you the best in your career choice. An engineering degree at the University of Arizona will probably net you a higher starting salary than one at Northern Arizona University.

This information comes from the Arizona Board of Regents, who studied student debt at the time of graduation in comparison to the courses of study that garnered the best starting pay.

Read the study.

See how the careers and Arizona's public universities stack up.

At the University of Arizona, the major with the best payout in 2017 was Computer and Information Sciences and Support, with median earnings in Arizona of $77,049 annually for recent graduates. These graduates also had the highest median debt for UA at $27,730 at the time of graduation.

Engineering majors earned the second best median pay at $76,576, and had less median debt at $18,583.

At Arizona State University, the field of study that will earn graduates the most in Arizona is Engineering with a median pay at the time of graduation in 2017 of $79,080, a bit better than University of Arizona.

Engineering graduates' indebtedness is a bit higher at $19,835, but at that pay, it is less of an issue.

Computer sciences was the major with the next highest median salary at $75,609.

If you want the best median starting pay for engineering and Computer sciences, Northern Arizona University falls a bit short of the other two public universities in the state.

One should not turn the nose up at a median starting salary of $69,892 for Computer sciences, however.

The combined university system for Arizona has engineering coming out on top; however, computer science majors had more debt upon graduation.