NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - College graduates are getting a bit more for their degrees as starting salaries keep rising -- with engineers and computer grads commanding the best gains.

The vast majority -- 85 percent -- of disciplines reporting changes in starting salary offers for the class of 2005 reported increases, according to the Winter 2005 survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

Engineering and computer science graduates saw the biggest gains overall. Civil engineering grads reported a 5.1 percent increase in their average starting salary, now at $43,159.

Starting pay for computer science graduates, on average, jumped 4.9 percent to $51,042, while information science grads are reporting a 3.9 percent, to $43,741.

Elsewhere, marketing graduates posted a hearty 4 percent gain in entry-level pay, to an average of $37,519.

Business administration graduates earn an average of $38,357, up 2.6 percent. The NACE survey notes that many of those jobs were in sales and that the average starting pay for those jobs is $40,395.

Economics-finance graduates received a very modest 0.3 percent increase. Their average pay now stands at $40,719.

NACE said there was little data available on liberal arts disciplines, though there are indications pay for this group has fallen.

As a whole, starting pay for liberal arts grads fell 3.6 percent to an average $29,060.

NACE conducts its surveys quarterly. Final results for the school year come in September.

All of the salaries quoted are national averages. The NACE survey looks at starting pay in 70 disciplines at the bachelor's degree level only.

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