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Highest Paying Humanities Majors

Top 50 Humanities 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 Amherst History 25 8% $153,409 100 95% — 60% 48% 12% 20% 4% 8% 1470 1510 1540 56%
2 Yale Special Divisional Major 117 3% $126,382 99 100% — 32% 37% 20% 18% 8% 7% 1480 1520 1560 92%
3 Georgetown Liberal Studies 33 14% $114,459 97 96% — 61% 21% 0% 21% 24% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
4 Boston University Interdisciplinary Studies 17 13% $109,458 96 88% 5.7% 59% 59% 12% 6% 0% 0% 1420 1470 1510 46%
5 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 36 16% $105,998 94 93% — 58% 72% 8% 6% 3% 3% 1370 1460 1530 73%
6 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy 16 5% $104,170 94 95% — 69% 56% 0% 6% 6% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
7 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics 183 5% $104,170 94 95% — 49% 52% 21% 4% 9% 8% 1500 1530 1560 70%
8 Yale History 121 3% $103,890 93 87% — 42% 52% 12% 8% 13% 5% 1480 1520 1560 92%
9 Stanford Classics 10 4% $100,781 93 — — 40% 70% 0% 0% 30% 0% 1520 1550 1570 77%
10 Stanford History 22 4% $98,808 92 — — 32% 41% 14% 14% 5% 5% 1520 1550 1570 77%
11 U. of Chicago Liberal Arts 20 5% $93,890 86 98% — 50% 70% 5% 5% 5% 10% 1500 1530 1560 82%
12 Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing 11 11% $93,642 87 100% — 55% 18% 9% 0% 45% 0% 1500 1530 1560 84%
13 Vanderbilt Economics and History 17 5% $93,153 86 94% — 88% 76% 12% 0% 6% 0% 1510 1540 1560 52%
14 Vanderbilt History 13 5% $93,153 86 94% — 54% 46% 23% 0% 23% 0% 1510 1540 1560 52%
15 Emory Quantitative Sciences 109 10% $92,366 86 100% — 42% 20% 25% 5% 6% 41% 1480 1510 1540 68%
16 U. of Rhode Island German 15 75% $91,305 93 100% — 73% 80% 0% 0% 7% 0% 1090 1200 1310 24%
17 Dartmouth History 57 6% $91,301 86 98% — 63% 63% 7% 7% 9% 5% 1440 1500 1550 100%
18 Lehigh Interdisciplinary Studies 24 29% $90,681 85 95% — 33% 67% 8% 17% 0% 0% 1380 1430 1480 43%
19 Columbia Near Eastern and Semitic Languages 10 5% $90,429 85 95% — 10% 10% 0% 20% 0% 30% 1510 1540 1560 67%
20 Duke Interdisciplinary Studies 339 5% $89,454 80 — — 40% 4% 4% 0% 1% 80% 1510 1540 1570 75%
21 Georgia Tech History, Technology, and Society 17 13% $89,377 92 — — 59% 47% 12% 24% 6% 12% 1370 1460 1530 100%
22 Duke Interdisciplinary Studies 23 5% $89,189 80 — — 26% 43% 26% 4% 13% 4% 1510 1540 1570 75%
23 Stanford Philosophy 15 4% $88,628 85 — — 60% 13% 53% 7% 13% 7% 1520 1550 1570 77%
24 Georgetown American Studies 22 14% $88,566 83 94% — 23% 77% 9% 0% 0% 5% 1400 1470 1530 100%
25 Fordham Philosophy 28 59% $88,510 85 80% — 61% 68% 4% 4% 18% 4% 1320 1400 1480 24%
26 Harvard History of Science 53 4% $88,287 85 94% — 19% 40% 13% 11% 25% 0% 1440 1500 1550 100%
27 Harvard History 56 4% $88,287 85 94% — 46% 57% 9% 5% 5% 11% 1440 1500 1550 100%
28 Harvard History and Literature 56 4% $88,287 85 94% — 30% 41% 12% 20% 11% 2% 1440 1500 1550 100%
29 Duke History 23 5% $88,172 79 91% — 57% 43% 17% 0% 22% 0% 1510 1540 1570 75%
30 Yale Classics 10 3% $87,816 81 — — 60% 60% 10% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
31 U. of Notre Dame History 24 9% $87,561 81 96% — 58% 83% 8% 0% 4% 0% 1460 1500 1540 67%
32 U. of Pennsylvania Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods 21 5% $87,494 83 — — 29% 38% 0% 24% 19% 5% 1500 1530 1560 70%
33 Rice History 19 8% $87,247 82 100% — 37% 63% 0% 5% 16% 11% 1510 1540 1560 83%
34 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Philosophy 29 30% $87,204 93 94% — 48% 48% 14% 3% 24% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
35 Dartmouth Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 17 6% $86,892 82 94% — 29% 29% 29% 6% 18% 12% 1440 1500 1550 100%
36 U. of Pennsylvania Ancient History 32 5% $86,861 83 85% — 53% 50% 12% 6% 16% 9% 1500 1530 1560 70%
37 Dartmouth English 33 6% $86,304 81 96% — 15% 73% 9% 0% 9% 3% 1440 1500 1550 100%
38 Mississippi State Foreign Languages 17 84% $85,952 91 85% — 12% 12% 0% 6% 0% 76% 1000 1120 1230 88%
39 Bucknell History 15 32% $85,940 80 100% — 67% 80% 0% 7% 0% 0% 1170 1270 1360 86%
40 Williams American Studies 12 9% $85,190 81 96% — 33% 25% 17% 8% 33% 0% 1490 1520 1550 61%
41 Cornell History 27 8% $84,850 78 89% — 52% 52% 7% 4% 22% 7% 1490 1520 1550 56%
42 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Christian Ministry 22 100% $84,121 94 — — 86% 86% 0% 5% 5% 0% 1000 1130 1250 47%
43 Bowdoin History 12 7% $84,051 78 — — 33% 75% 0% 0% 17% 0% 1470 1510 1540 52%
44 U. of Southern California Philosophy 63 11% $83,881 78 84% — 51% 37% 24% 5% 13% 8% 1470 1510 1540 45%
45 Harvard Philosophy 29 4% $83,445 81 — — 38% 34% 24% 10% 14% 14% 1440 1500 1550 100%
46 Dartmouth Philosophy 10 6% $82,950 77 — — 50% 80% 10% 10% 0% 0% 1440 1500 1550 100%
47 Stanford Science, Technology, and Society 74 4% $82,619 79 96% — 47% 32% 16% 18% 16% 7% 1520 1550 1570 77%
48 Yale Philosophy 21 3% $82,247 74 — — 48% 48% 5% 10% 19% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
49 U. of California, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies 76 11% $82,161 87 88% — 42% 47% 13% 4% 16% 12% — — — —
50 Georgetown Interdisciplinary Studies 38 14% $81,636 76 — — 47% 50% 18% 0% 8% 13% 1400 1470 1530 100%