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Highest Paying Computer Science Majors

Top 50 Computer Science 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 Brown Computer Science 243 6% $265,622 100 93% — 58% 26% 31% 7% 12% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
2 Yale Computer Science 145 3% $262,438 100 100% — 72% 17% 43% 4% 7% 21% 1480 1520 1560 92%
3 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science 280 11% $253,580 100 96% — 64% 14% 38% 2% 8% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
4 U. of Chicago Computer Science 174 5% $224,666 100 92% — 67% 30% 28% 6% 9% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
5 Stanford Computer Science 446 4% $221,819 100 98% — 65% 15% 46% 7% 11% 11% 1520 1550 1570 77%
6 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics 54 12% $220,132 100 98% — 59% 7% 31% 11% 15% 26% 1500 1530 1560 76%
7 Brown Computer Science and Economics 57 6% $220,082 100 — — 74% 37% 28% 5% 5% 21% 1470 1510 1550 100%
8 Rice Computer Science 197 8% $215,952 100 91% — 65% 17% 46% 6% 11% 17% 1510 1540 1560 83%
9 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 505 11% $210,366 100 97% — 78% 15% 51% 1% 11% 12% — — — —
10 Cornell Computer Science 516 8% $209,884 100 96% — 63% 18% 43% 5% 10% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
11 Duke Computer Science 238 5% $207,237 100 99% — 61% 27% 29% 5% 13% 15% 1510 1540 1570 75%
12 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) 323 5% $206,801 100 94% — 58% 12% 45% 6% 13% 12% 1520 1550 1570 100%
13 Harvard Computer Science 224 4% $206,318 100 97% — 66% 17% 42% 5% 8% 20% 1440 1500 1550 100%
14 Yale Computing and the Arts 17 3% $205,072 100 — — 29% 12% 47% 6% 18% 6% 1480 1520 1560 92%
15 Princeton Computer Science 194 4% $201,352 100 100% — 58% 20% 35% 9% 10% 16% 1490 1530 1560 80%
16 Harvey Mudd Computer Science 54 12% $200,694 100 93% — 52% 19% 28% 7% 22% 4% 1500 1530 1560 76%
17 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science 915 11% $196,962 100 98% — 71% 10% 50% 0% 5% 23% — — — —
18 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics 20 3% $195,418 100 — — 75% 30% 35% 0% 25% 0% 1480 1520 1560 92%
19 Pomona Computer Science 77 7% $193,864 100 100% — 69% 29% 19% 8% 9% 23% 1490 1520 1550 49%
20 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) 85 5% $193,751 100 — — 59% 20% 39% 11% 7% 16% 1520 1550 1570 100%
21 Duke Mathematics and Computer Science 10 5% $190,434 100 — — 90% 40% 40% 0% 10% 10% 1510 1540 1570 75%
22 Columbia Computer Science 377 5% $189,073 100 95% — 64% 21% 29% 8% 12% 23% 1510 1540 1560 67%
23 Amherst Computer Science 59 8% $187,720 100 94% — 59% 20% 17% 5% 17% 36% 1470 1510 1540 56%
24 Carnegie Mellon Information Technology 12 11% $185,110 100 98% — 42% 8% 17% 8% 42% 8% 1500 1530 1560 84%
25 Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 38 11% $185,110 100 98% — 50% 8% 42% 5% 13% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
26 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science and Arts 14 11% $185,110 100 98% — 79% 29% 36% 0% 0% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
27 Dartmouth Computer Science 136 6% $183,665 100 98% — 67% 36% 18% 4% 6% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
28 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science 160 12% $183,662 100 100% — 64% 29% 26% 10% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1550 61%
29 Bowdoin Computer Science 42 7% $179,741 100 95% — 79% 38% 17% 10% 14% 12% 1470 1510 1540 52%
30 Columbia Information Science/Studies 23 5% $178,806 100 — — 57% 35% 17% 9% 9% 17% 1510 1540 1560 67%
31 Johns Hopkins Computer Science 146 6% $175,650 100 97% — 60% 18% 36% 8% 10% 22% 1530 1550 1560 77%
32 Caltech Computer Science 88 4% $173,460 100 100% — 59% 10% 51% 8% 14% 11% 1540 1560 1580 100%
33 Columbia Mathematics and Computer Science 25 5% $171,832 100 — — 52% 32% 16% 0% 8% 24% 1510 1540 1560 67%
34 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Science 89 5% $169,349 100 95% — 58% 11% 48% 3% 6% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
35 Emory Computer Science 91 10% $167,566 100 94% — 68% 18% 25% 10% 11% 33% 1480 1510 1540 68%
36 Vanderbilt Computer Science 170 5% $165,652 100 98% — 64% 21% 29% 8% 9% 28% 1510 1540 1560 52%
37 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Science 458 37% $165,505 100 99% — 70% 15% 48% 2% 3% 29% 1390 1460 1520 57%
38 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information Technology and Web Science 26 63% $165,297 100 100% — 69% 38% 27% 12% 4% 12% 1380 1440 1500 66%
39 Oberlin Computer Science 43 34% $165,218 100 88% — 70% 44% 2% 5% 12% 28% 1370 1430 1480 48%
40 Wellesley Computer Science 55 15% $163,202 100 97% — 0% 9% 29% 7% 9% 35% 1460 1500 1540 62%
41 U. of Southern California Computer Science 378 11% $159,694 100 93% — 66% 15% 45% 4% 10% 19% 1470 1510 1540 45%
42 Northwestern Data Science and Society 123 7% $158,713 100 98% 1.4% 59% 27% 27% 7% 15% 12% 1510 1540 1560 69%
43 Tufts Computer Science 222 11% $158,444 100 95% — 59% 33% 28% 7% 6% 14% 1460 1490 1520 58%
44 MIT Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) 28 5% $158,174 100 — — 54% 14% 39% 18% 14% 4% 1520 1550 1570 100%
45 Washington University in St Louis Mathematics and Computer Science 51 12% $158,092 100 — — 73% 47% 31% 4% 4% 10% 1500 1530 1550 61%
46 Williams Computer Science 62 9% $157,832 100 96% — 69% 40% 11% 5% 8% 24% 1490 1520 1550 61%
47 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Computer Science 111 81% $157,798 100 100% — 84% 65% 11% 4% 1% 8% 1270 1360 1450 52%
48 Colgate Computer Science 71 18% $157,491 100 100% — 59% 46% 11% 6% 4% 18% 1450 1480 1510 39%
49 U. of Virginia Computer Science 591 16% $157,470 100 96% — 66% 29% 43% 5% 4% 6% 1410 1460 1510 60%
50 New York University Information Technology Project Management 38 9% $156,860 100 93% — 61% 11% 26% 8% 13% 26% 1480 1520 1550 37%