Work in education economics has shown that college undergraduates are systematically misinformed about how their choice of major is likely to affect future earnings, even though information about the major-earnings relationship can be obtained at low cost. Information avoidance, a behavioral phenomenon in which an individual is averse to obtaining costless information, could explain this information gap among college undergraduates. We test for information avoidance in a lab experiment in which undergraduate subjects supply their willingness to pay for information about the major-earnings relationship. We find that a material amount of subjects are willing to pay to avoid the earnings information, and that the rate of information avoidance decreases with respect to the instrumental value of the information.