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Highest Paying Business & Economics Majors

Top 50 Business & Economics college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania Health Care Management & Policy $313,615 100 95% 20 5% 1540
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance $313,452 100 95% 333 5% 1540
3 U. of Pennsylvania Real Estate $295,198 100 95% 15 5% 1540
4 Yale Computer Science and Economics $271,466 100 100% 11 4% 1520
5 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation $239,096 100 95% 17 5% 1540
6 Washington University in St Louis Finance $190,811 100 100% 114 12% 1530
7 Duke Economics $171,986 100 95% 19 5% 1540
8 Duke Economics $171,986 100 95% 149 5% 1540
9 U. of Pennsylvania Business Economics & Public Policy $171,421 100 — 13 5% 1540
10 Saint Mary's College of California Health Administration $167,609 100 96% 43 70% —
11 Georgetown Accounting $165,279 100 93% 23 14% 1470
12 Harvard Economics $161,251 100 97% 242 3% 1540
13 Washington University in St Louis Economics and Strategy $159,108 100 100% 27 12% 1530
14 Carnegie Mellon Business Administration $159,088 100 94% 174 11% 1530
15 Princeton Quantitative Economics $157,548 100 98% 124 4% 1540
16 U. of Chicago Economics $157,181 100 96% 548 5% 1540
17 New York University Management Science $155,388 100 100% 794 9% 1520
18 George Washington Business Administration $154,789 100 92% 147 47% 1420
19 Baylor Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations $154,528 100 100% 30 52% 1300
20 Dartmouth Quantitative Economics $153,295 100 95% 163 6% 1500
21 Georgetown Finance $152,931 100 91% 197 14% 1470
22 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematical Economics $152,236 100 95% 161 5% 1540
23 Claremont McKenna Economics $151,744 100 88% 99 9% 1510
24 Williams Economics $150,862 100 92% 76 7% 1520
25 U. of Pennsylvania Operations, Information & Decisions $150,213 100 96% 24 5% 1540
26 U. of Pennsylvania Artificial Intelligence for Business $150,213 100 96% 61 5% 1540
27 Amherst Economics $150,151 100 91% 78 8% 1510
28 Middlebury Economics $150,031 100 96% 112 13% 1500
29 Stanford Economics $148,692 100 91% 109 4% 1550
30 U. of Southern California Artificial Intelligence for Business $148,578 100 94% 53 12% 1500
31 U. of Southern California International Business $148,578 100 94% 54 12% 1500
32 Washington & Lee Economics $145,820 100 96% 28 13% 1480
33 Johns Hopkins Economics $145,452 100 92% 42 6% 1550
34 U. of California, Berkeley Business Administration $145,003 100 95% 425 11% —
35 Wake Forest Business Analytics $143,676 99 100% 21 18% 1460
36 Washington University in St Louis Entrepreneurship $142,796 99 — 11 12% 1530
37 Colby Economics $142,245 99 94% 93 8% 1500
38 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Business Administration $140,827 99 94% 608 16% 1450
39 Georgetown Health Care Management and Policy $140,812 99 100% 31 14% 1470
40 Wake Forest Finance $140,033 99 95% 133 18% 1460
41 Washington University in St Louis Data Science and Analytics $139,060 99 — 25 12% 1530
42 U. of Notre Dame Finance $138,141 99 94% 297 9% 1500
43 Barnard Economics $136,964 99 86% 82 10% 1510
44 U. of Virginia Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods $136,313 99 100% 389 12% 1470
45 Swarthmore Economics $136,021 99 100% 57 7% 1520
46 Brigham Young Business Economics $135,399 100 96% 49 35% 1360
47 Boston College Finance $135,373 99 96% 209 13% 1490
48 Georgetown Operations and Analytics $134,796 99 100% 28 14% 1470
49 MCPHS Healthcare Administration $134,399 100 98% 10 72% —
50 Columbia Economics $134,398 99 90% 240 4% 1540