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Highest Paying Business & Economics Majors

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

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 U. of Pennsylvania Health Care Management & Policy 23 5% $311,458 100 95% — 48% 4% 52% 13% 4% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance 354 5% $310,624 100 95% — 57% 25% 31% 5% 12% 21% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 Yale Computer Science and Economics 10 3% $262,438 100 100% — 90% 30% 30% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
4 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation 14 5% $236,323 100 95% — 57% 14% 36% 21% 14% 14% 1500 1530 1560 70%
5 Washington University in St Louis Finance 101 12% $203,101 100 100% — 66% 50% 19% 4% 13% 7% 1500 1530 1550 61%
6 Washington University in St Louis Entrepreneurship 11 12% $178,729 100 — — 55% 82% 9% 0% 9% 0% 1500 1530 1550 61%
7 Washington University in St Louis Healthcare Management 11 12% $176,922 100 — — 27% 27% 27% 27% 18% 0% 1500 1530 1550 61%
8 Duke Economics 190 5% $176,442 100 95% — 63% 49% 18% 3% 8% 13% 1510 1540 1570 75%
9 Washington University in St Louis Leadership and Strategic Management 17 12% $175,622 100 — — 41% 53% 6% 6% 29% 6% 1500 1530 1550 61%
10 Washington University in St Louis Economics and Strategy 31 12% $169,356 100 100% — 52% 52% 19% 3% 19% 3% 1500 1530 1550 61%
11 Baylor Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations 36 52% $161,753 100 100% — 67% 78% 3% 0% 14% 3% 1190 1280 1370 69%
12 Carnegie Mellon Business Administration 191 11% $160,531 100 94% — 44% 25% 39% 4% 12% 12% 1500 1530 1560 84%
13 Rice Business 89 8% $160,317 100 — — 61% 48% 24% 8% 12% 6% 1510 1540 1560 83%
14 Georgetown Accounting 11 14% $157,368 100 93% — 36% 73% 0% 9% 9% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
15 U. of Chicago Economics 653 5% $155,845 100 96% — 58% 26% 26% 4% 13% 23% 1500 1530 1560 82%
16 Washington University in St Louis Data Science and Analytics 29 12% $154,056 100 — — 66% 48% 38% 0% 7% 3% 1500 1530 1550 61%
17 Middlebury Economics 128 13% $151,586 100 96% — 71% 63% 5% 3% 6% 12% 1460 1500 1530 49%
18 Harvard Economics 278 4% $150,856 100 97% — 63% 37% 18% 7% 9% 19% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 Wake Forest Business Analytics 17 18% $150,550 100 100% — 59% 65% 12% 0% 0% 18% 1420 1460 1490 46%
20 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematical Economics 155 5% $150,134 100 95% — 68% 28% 30% 5% 10% 18% 1500 1530 1560 70%
21 U. of Pennsylvania Business Economics & Public Policy 14 5% $149,746 100 — — 50% 43% 14% 7% 21% 0% 1500 1530 1560 70%
22 Princeton Quantitative Economics 122 4% $148,504 100 98% — 70% 42% 18% 3% 11% 16% 1490 1530 1560 80%
23 U. of Pennsylvania Artificial Intelligence for Business 72 5% $148,471 100 96% — 39% 17% 31% 14% 8% 28% 1500 1530 1560 70%
24 U. of Pennsylvania Operations, Information & Decisions 27 5% $148,471 100 96% — 44% 22% 19% 15% 11% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
25 George Washington Business Administration 105 47% $147,380 100 92% — 54% 48% 12% 8% 11% 17% 1310 1380 1450 50%
26 Wake Forest Finance 143 18% $146,733 100 95% — 74% 77% 6% 1% 6% 6% 1420 1460 1490 46%
27 Dartmouth Quantitative Economics 128 6% $145,995 100 95% — 68% 41% 16% 3% 7% 21% 1440 1500 1550 100%
28 Georgetown Finance 223 14% $145,611 100 91% — 69% 62% 15% 2% 6% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
29 Washington & Lee Economics 33 14% $145,404 100 96% — 64% 67% 0% 0% 6% 21% 1430 1480 1530 52%
30 Williams Economics 97 9% $145,273 100 92% — 63% 56% 14% 2% 10% 7% 1490 1520 1550 61%
31 Colby Economics 108 8% $145,170 100 94% — 65% 55% 11% 4% 9% 6% 1460 1510 1550 52%
32 U. of Notre Dame Finance 307 9% $144,945 100 94% — 70% 68% 5% 1% 11% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
33 Amherst Economics 81 8% $144,588 100 91% — 69% 49% 16% 4% 12% 14% 1470 1510 1540 56%
34 Washington University in St Louis Accounting 10 12% $143,560 100 — — 40% 40% 30% 0% 20% 0% 1500 1530 1550 61%
35 New York University Management Science 678 9% $142,735 100 100% — 56% 14% 28% 7% 19% 24% 1480 1520 1550 37%
36 Johns Hopkins Economics 64 6% $139,531 99 92% — 56% 34% 11% 5% 14% 23% 1530 1550 1560 77%
37 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Business Administration 635 16% $138,596 99 94% — 55% 45% 29% 4% 8% 4% 1370 1460 1530 73%
38 Brigham Young Business Economics 66 68% $138,440 100 96% — 68% 88% 0% 0% 8% 2% 1290 1360 1430 54%
39 Claremont McKenna Economics 110 9% $138,300 99 88% — 62% 29% 18% 2% 13% 26% 1480 1510 1540 48%
40 Vanderbilt Economics 203 5% $135,682 99 96% — 66% 38% 19% 4% 12% 18% 1510 1540 1560 52%
41 MIT Management Science (Course 15) 16 5% $135,388 99 95% — 19% 38% 19% 12% 19% 12% 1520 1550 1570 100%
42 MIT Business Analytics (Course 15-2) 11 5% $135,388 99 95% — 45% 27% 45% 0% 18% 0% 1520 1550 1570 100%
43 Swarthmore Economics 57 8% $134,143 99 100% — 61% 39% 18% 11% 7% 12% 1480 1520 1550 55%
44 Lehigh Finance 157 29% $133,413 99 95% — 69% 68% 9% 1% 7% 5% 1380 1430 1480 43%
45 U. of Virginia Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods 398 16% $133,388 99 100% — 51% 51% 17% 6% 9% 5% 1410 1460 1510 60%
46 Stanford Economics 112 4% $133,104 99 91% — 69% 31% 22% 5% 12% 17% 1520 1550 1570 77%
47 Georgetown Health Care Management and Policy 29 14% $133,091 99 100% — 14% 48% 34% 3% 7% 0% 1400 1470 1530 100%
48 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Mathematical Sciences 49 11% $132,550 99 94% — 71% 20% 33% 0% 12% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
49 Villanova Finance 208 27% $131,999 99 97% — 72% 72% 9% 2% 10% 2% 1420 1460 1490 28%
50 U. of Texas at Dallas Business Administration 229 65% $131,780 100 94% — 58% 31% 26% 4% 29% 2% 1160 1290 1410 93%