What they are teaching in college nowadays

Fortunate here. A bright son wrapping his last year at Texas A&M in mechanical engineering and has accepted a job in O&G (my now retired career) for $500 shy of six figures with an 8 grand signing bonus. His fiancee will graduate with a Masters in economics completed in 3 1/2 years there and has accepted a $70K job. With bonuses they will likely be $200k/yr straight out of university. It is nice to know that, at least financially, I have no worries for them.