The 10 most useful graduate degrees

It can take years and thousands of dollars to get a graduate degree, but the benefits are often worth the investment.

We recently showed you the 10 most useless graduate degrees. Now, here are the ones most likely to help your career.

As with our list of the most useless graduate degrees, we looked at the recent "Hard Times" report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce to assess the value of a graduate degree.

This report included salary and unemployment data for experienced college graduates and graduate degree holders.

We calculated the percent difference in how much more money a graduate degree will bring, as well as how much of a better chance you will have of finding a job. The higher the combined figure was for a field of study, the more useful the graduate degree.