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Lowest Paying Majors

Bottom 50 college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Roosevelt Acting $15,396 1 95% 14 92% 1040
2 Roosevelt Musical Theatre $15,396 1 95% 35 92% 1040
3 New Mexico State Anthropology $17,486 1 89% 11 57% 990
4 U. of California, Irvine Human Biology $17,671 1 90% 119 29% —
5 Fashion Institute of Technology Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics, and Special Effects $17,778 2 71% 25 58% —
6 Columbus State Music Performance $17,854 2 100% 19 79% 930
7 Clemson Fine/Studio Arts $17,954 1 90% 11 42% 1320
8 Clemson Fine Arts $17,954 1 90% 10 42% 1320
9 Oberlin Theater $18,039 1 89% 11 34% 1440
10 Berklee College of Music Dance $19,056 1 95% 28 44% —
11 U. of West Georgia Theatre $19,368 2 100% 10 70% 1050
12 U. of Central Arkansas Film Production $19,899 1 88% 27 72% 1040
13 Pacific Northwest College of Art Digital Arts $20,148 1 84% 19 75% —
14 Florida Atlantic Theatre $20,260 2 95% 23 52% 1120
15 Georgia Southern Theater $20,376 2 96% 10 72% 1060
16 U. of California, Berkeley Music $20,541 1 73% 54 11% —
17 Bennington Visual Arts $20,724 1 88% 17 48% 1350
18 Lewis & Clark Studio Art $21,054 1 91% 13 71% —
19 U. of Oklahoma - Norman Dance $21,216 1 100% 18 72% 1240
20 Indiana Dance $21,505 1 94% 16 76% 1280
21 U. of Florida Dance $21,714 2 93% 27 23% 1400
22 SUNY at Purchase Dance $21,932 2 94% 40 75% 1280
23 U. of Texas at El Paso International Business $22,043 2 94% 32 95% 970
24 U. of Georgia Music Performance $22,169 1 95% 15 30% 1370
25 U. of Georgia Music $22,169 1 95% 19 30% 1370
26 Cornish College of the Arts Dance $22,211 1 86% 12 71% —
27 Oberlin Creative Writing $22,476 1 100% 21 34% 1440
28 Rowan Theater $22,828 2 100% 27 84% 1210
29 CUNY Lehman Dance $23,052 3 96% 14 58% —
30 Bennington Theatre $23,104 1 94% 17 48% 1350
31 Florida International Asian Studies $23,267 3 74% 33 42% 1170
32 State University of New York at New Paltz Theater $23,543 3 95% 35 46% 1250
33 Carnegie Mellon Voice and Opera $23,666 1 95% 10 11% 1530
34 Fayetteville State Studio Art $23,858 4 95% 18 52% 990
35 The New School Music History $23,875 1 86% 12 63% —
36 The New School Jazz Studies $23,875 1 86% 51 63% —
37 The New School Music Performance $23,875 1 86% 13 63% —
38 The New School Keyboard Instruments $23,875 1 86% 13 63% —
39 Lawrence Art $24,014 1 86% 11 75% 1310
40 Furman English $24,045 1 100% 13 48% 1340
41 Brigham Young University - Idaho Theatre $24,051 4 84% 17 97% 1090
42 Washington University in St Louis Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies $24,121 1 100% 12 12% 1530
43 Georgia State General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations $24,189 2 96% 30 58% 1060
44 U. of Illinois Chicago Entrepreneurship $24,272 2 90% 10 79% 1240
45 U. of Idaho Theater $24,363 2 100% 12 75% 1110
46 Brigham Young University - Idaho Human Development and Family Studies $24,381 4 59% 529 97% 1090
47 Brigham Young University - Idaho Family and Community Services $24,381 4 59% 14 97% 1090
48 Brigham Young University - Idaho Child Development $24,381 4 59% 51 97% 1090
49 Benedict Mass Communication $24,396 2 92% 17 86% —
50 East Tennessee State Music $24,436 3 100% 14 78% 1090