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Highest Paying Computer Science Majors
Top 50 Computer Science college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings
| # | College | Major | Earnings | ROI | Employ | Degrees | Accept | SAT | |
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| 1 | Brown | Computer Science | $271,601 | 100 | 93% | 243 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 2 | Yale | Computer Science | $271,466 | 100 | 100% | 139 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 3 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science | $251,632 | 100 | 96% | 218 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 4 | Stanford | Computer Science | $247,797 | 100 | 98% | 341 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 5 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science & Mathematics | $241,531 | 100 | 98% | 52 | 9% | 1530 |
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| 6 | U. of California, Berkeley | Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | $240,462 | 100 | 97% | 492 | 11% | — |
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| 7 | U. of Chicago | Computer Science | $227,147 | 100 | 92% | 178 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 8 | U. of California, Berkeley | Computer Science | $225,140 | 100 | 98% | 796 | 11% | — |
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| 9 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science | $220,204 | 100 | 93% | 37 | 9% | 1530 |
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| 10 | MIT | Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) | $220,064 | 100 | 94% | 323 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 11 | Cornell | Computer Science | $219,827 | 100 | 96% | 467 | 8% | 1530 |
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| 12 | Harvard | Computer Science | $219,550 | 100 | 97% | 184 | 3% | 1540 |
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| 13 | Princeton | Computer Science | $213,614 | 100 | 100% | 213 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 14 | Rice | Computer Science | $213,603 | 100 | 91% | 163 | 8% | 1530 |
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| 15 | Pomona | Computer Science | $212,710 | 100 | 100% | 65 | 7% | 1520 |
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| 16 | Columbia | Computer Science | $204,511 | 100 | 95% | 408 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 17 | MIT | Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) | $203,415 | 100 | — | 19 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 18 | Brown | Computer Science and Economics | $202,204 | 100 | — | 39 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 19 | Duke | Computer Science | $201,846 | 100 | 99% | 274 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 20 | Caltech | Computer Science | $196,501 | 100 | 100% | 94 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 21 | Amherst | Computer Science | $194,751 | 100 | 94% | 48 | 8% | 1510 |
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| 22 | Dartmouth | Computer Science | $192,848 | 100 | 98% | 103 | 6% | 1500 |
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| 23 | Yale | Computing and the Arts | $186,169 | 100 | — | 11 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 24 | Carnegie Mellon | Artificial Intelligence | $183,688 | 100 | 98% | 45 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 25 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science and Arts | $183,688 | 100 | 98% | 10 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 26 | Johns Hopkins | Computer Science | $183,104 | 100 | 97% | 138 | 6% | 1550 |
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| 27 | U. of Southern California | Computer Science | $180,906 | 100 | 93% | 352 | 12% | 1500 |
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| 28 | MIT | Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) | $178,969 | 100 | — | 39 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 29 | Bowdoin | Computer Science | $177,788 | 100 | 95% | 33 | 7% | 1500 |
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| 30 | Wellesley | Computer Science | $173,669 | 100 | 97% | 49 | 14% | 1510 |
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| 31 | Washington University in St Louis | Computer Science | $173,525 | 100 | 100% | 210 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 32 | U. of Pennsylvania | Computer Science | $171,166 | 100 | 96% | 95 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 33 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Information Technology and Web Science | $170,829 | 100 | 100% | 23 | 67% | 1440 |
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| 34 | U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Computer Science | $170,405 | 100 | 99% | 361 | 37% | 1410 |
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| 35 | Tufts | Computer Science | $168,606 | 100 | 95% | 177 | 10% | 1510 |
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| 36 | Yale | Computer Science & Mathematics | $168,436 | 100 | — | 14 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 37 | Emory | Computer Science | $166,603 | 100 | 94% | 73 | 12% | 1500 |
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| 38 | U. of Southern California | Computer Science (Games) | $165,219 | 100 | 91% | 45 | 12% | 1500 |
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| 39 | Columbia | Information Science/Studies | $164,846 | 100 | — | 11 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 40 | Williams | Computer Science | $163,743 | 100 | 96% | 56 | 7% | 1520 |
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| 41 | Georgetown | Computer Science | $162,419 | 100 | 100% | 40 | 14% | 1470 |
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| 42 | U. of Washington - Bothell | Computer Science and Software Engineering | $162,117 | 100 | 94% | 241 | 86% | 1190 |
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| 43 | U. of Washington | Computer Science | $162,117 | 100 | 94% | 515 | 42% | 1410 |
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| 44 | U. of Southern California | Computer Engineering and Computer Science | $161,292 | 100 | 93% | 36 | 12% | 1500 |
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| 45 | U. of Virginia | Computer Science | $160,993 | 100 | 96% | 337 | 12% | 1470 |
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| 46 | San Jose State | Computer Science | $160,714 | 100 | 93% | 182 | 50% | — |
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| 47 | Northwestern | Data Science and Society | $160,465 | 100 | 98% | 110 | 7% | 1540 |
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| 48 | U. of California, San Diego | Computer Science | $160,463 | 100 | 94% | 415 | 29% | — |
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| 49 | U. of Chicago | Data Science | $160,099 | 100 | — | 29 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 50 | Colgate | Computer Science | $158,740 | 100 | 100% | 42 | 17% | 1480 |
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