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Highest Paying Life & Natural Sciences Majors

Top 50 Life & Natural Sciences 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 California, San Diego Bioinformatics 110 29% $123,023 99 100% — 50% 15% 49% 1% 4% 16% — — — —
2 Brigham Young Bioinformatics 34 68% $108,379 99 94% — 59% 91% 0% 0% 0% 3% 1290 1360 1430 54%
3 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology 191 72% $104,177 98 98% — 25% 63% 15% 7% 3% 5% 1030 1150 1260 57%
4 U. of Notre Dame Biochemistry 23 9% $94,876 87 87% — 61% 57% 13% 4% 4% 4% 1460 1500 1540 67%
5 U. of Pennsylvania Neuroscience 102 5% $93,785 88 100% — 38% 21% 37% 9% 20% 4% 1500 1530 1560 70%
6 U. of the Pacific Biology 154 71% $93,189 91 97% — 45% 5% 69% 1% 8% 6% 1180 1350 1480 26%
7 College of St. Scholastica Biology 35 74% $92,613 93 91% — 40% 97% 0% 3% 0% 0% 1090 1200 1310 26%
8 U. of Iowa Biochemistry 55 80% $92,381 93 90% — 60% 64% 9% 4% 9% 4% 1130 1230 1320 82%
9 Ohio Dominican Biology 11 54% $92,311 93 92% — 45% 64% 0% 18% 9% 0% — — — —
10 Loyola University Maryland Biology 38 83% $91,764 89 93% — 24% 53% 8% 13% 18% 0% 1200 1290 1370 17%
11 Northeastern Biochemistry 118 17% $91,490 87 85% — 33% 45% 24% 6% 13% 4% 1440 1480 1510 28%
12 Northeastern Biology 170 17% $91,261 86 93% — 25% 48% 24% 6% 10% 4% 1440 1480 1510 28%
13 Middlebury Neuroscience 52 13% $90,022 84 95% — 31% 62% 8% 13% 4% 10% 1460 1500 1530 49%
14 U. of La Verne Biology 50 71% $89,440 90 94% — 26% 12% 8% 2% 70% 2% — — — —
15 Duke Anatomy 19 5% $89,074 80 93% — 5% 32% 21% 5% 26% 11% 1510 1540 1570 75%
16 Northeastern Cellular and Molecular Biology 87 17% $88,934 85 96% — 25% 38% 26% 8% 13% 5% 1440 1480 1510 28%
17 U. of California, Berkeley Microbial Biology 73 11% $88,774 91 100% — 34% 29% 32% 5% 16% 11% — — — —
18 Harvard Integrative Biology 27 4% $88,135 85 95% — 63% 33% 7% 11% 22% 4% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 North Carolina State Biochemistry 71 40% $88,073 92 100% — 45% 62% 10% 4% 7% 1% 1310 1380 1440 40%
20 U. of Notre Dame Biological and Physical Sciences 64 9% $87,976 81 90% — 55% 70% 8% 3% 11% 0% 1460 1500 1540 67%
21 Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Biology 16 98% $87,876 89 100% — 25% 69% 0% 0% 6% 6% — — — —
22 Yale Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 85 3% $87,734 81 90% — 36% 28% 31% 9% 15% 4% 1480 1520 1560 92%
23 Towson Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology 19 88% $86,442 92 93% — 26% 26% 11% 42% 11% 0% 950 1090 1230 18%
24 George Mason Neuroscience 66 89% $86,002 90 87% — 33% 29% 38% 9% 14% 3% 1160 1260 1360 21%
25 Providence Biology 73 50% $85,875 82 96% — 22% 66% 3% 4% 14% 1% 1250 1320 1390 24%
26 Springfield Biomedical Sciences 12 72% $85,453 88 100% — 50% 83% 0% 0% 8% 8% — — — —
27 Yale Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 26 3% $85,288 78 94% — 35% 27% 19% 12% 19% 8% 1480 1520 1560 92%
28 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology 84 46% $85,118 87 89% — 38% 20% 46% 0% 17% 7% — — — —
29 Lehigh Neuroscience 31 29% $84,575 79 87% — 23% 61% 3% 6% 10% 0% 1380 1430 1480 43%
30 Syracuse Biotechnology 20 46% $84,321 81 100% — 15% 40% 30% 15% 10% 0% 1270 1360 1440 31%
31 Auburn Biomedical Sciences 357 47% $84,290 88 96% — 28% 80% 4% 5% 5% 0% 1260 1330 1390 90%
32 Auburn Biology 29 47% $84,290 88 96% — 24% 86% 0% 0% 3% 0% 1260 1330 1390 90%
33 Endicott Biotechnology 19 62% $84,092 89 100% — 26% 89% 0% 0% 11% 0% 1190 1270 1340 11%
34 Muhlenberg Biology 26 35% $83,795 80 90% — 31% 88% 0% 0% 4% 0% 1250 1330 1410 22%
35 Worcester State Biotechnology 16 72% $83,379 94 96% — 56% 62% 6% 6% 12% 6% — — — —
36 Harvard Chemical and Physical Biology 10 4% $83,236 80 — — 70% 40% 30% 0% 10% 20% 1440 1500 1550 100%
37 Grinnell Biochemistry 39 14% $83,067 74 91% — 33% 49% 18% 8% 15% 5% 1410 1480 1540 50%
38 U. of Connecticut Molecular and Cell Biology 172 54% $82,860 86 93% — 36% 42% 31% 5% 12% 2% 1210 1330 1440 41%
39 Union College Biology 38 43% $82,825 78 92% — 26% 68% 16% 0% 5% 5% 1320 1400 1470 41%
40 Fairfield Biology 40 33% $82,813 82 93% — 35% 75% 10% 0% 2% 2% 1260 1330 1390 19%
41 Miami University - Ohio Biochemistry 46 74% $82,494 85 100% — 35% 85% 4% 0% 4% 4% 1220 1310 1390 32%
42 Lafayette Neuroscience 40 31% $82,489 77 90% — 18% 75% 8% 0% 15% 0% 1360 1430 1490 36%
43 U. of Houston Biotechnology 68 76% $82,316 91 85% — 35% 18% 40% 13% 24% 4% 1140 1230 1310 62%
44 U. of California, Davis Microbiology 109 46% $82,228 84 94% — 41% 23% 40% 1% 22% 6% — — — —
45 U. of North Dakota Biology 79 82% $82,155 91 100% — 37% 80% 4% 0% 3% 5% — — — —
46 Muhlenberg Neuroscience 12 35% $82,051 78 90% — 0% 75% 8% 0% 8% 0% 1250 1330 1410 22%
47 Furman Biology 42 43% $81,909 78 100% — 21% 83% 5% 2% 2% 2% 1260 1350 1430 49%
48 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry 32 38% $81,873 84 80% — 56% 50% 19% 0% 25% 6% — — — —
49 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry-Molecular Biology 46 38% $81,873 84 80% — 54% 26% 33% 2% 20% 4% — — — —
50 Harvard Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology 50 4% $81,758 79 75% — 36% 20% 38% 10% 22% 4% 1440 1500 1550 100%