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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 Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of California, San Diego Bioinformatics $138,331 99 100% 98 29% —
2 Brigham Young Bioinformatics $106,705 99 94% 25 35% 1360
3 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology $103,618 98 98% 133 72% 1150
4 U. of the Pacific Biology $101,618 96 97% 132 79% 1330
5 U. of California, Berkeley Microbial Biology $101,475 97 100% 80 11% —
6 U. of La Verne Biology $98,134 95 94% 42 72% —
7 Northeastern Biochemistry $97,781 92 85% 88 24% 1490
8 Northeastern Biology $97,536 92 93% 126 24% 1490
9 Loyola University Maryland Biology $95,658 92 93% 66 84% 1280
10 Northeastern Cellular and Molecular Biology $95,049 90 96% 74 24% 1490
11 U. of Pennsylvania Neuroscience $94,630 90 100% 152 5% 1540
12 Georgetown Biochemistry $94,206 89 94% 14 14% 1470
13 Harvard Integrative Biology $93,597 90 95% 46 3% 1540
14 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology $93,489 93 89% 70 44% —
15 Dominican University of California Biology $91,956 92 94% 23 93% —
16 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry $90,796 91 80% 27 38% —
17 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry-Molecular Biology $90,796 91 80% 51 38% —
18 Yale Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology $90,793 85 89% 83 4% 1520
19 U. of Notre Dame Biochemistry $90,787 85 87% 55 9% 1500
20 U. of California, Davis Microbiology $90,315 91 94% 81 44% —
21 Seton Hall Biology $90,211 91 98% 171 69% 1300
22 Towson Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology $90,110 95 93% 32 88% 1100
23 U. of California, Berkeley Conservation and Resource Studies $89,932 93 92% 86 11% —
24 Endicott Biotechnology $89,874 93 100% 14 62% 1270
25 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Veterinary and Animal Sciences $89,862 93 100% 77 60% 1410
26 Loyola Marymount Natural Science $89,101 88 100% 40 48% 1340
27 Middlebury Neuroscience $89,099 84 95% 61 13% 1500
28 George Mason Neuroscience $88,888 92 87% 70 72% 1260
29 Providence Biology $88,809 86 96% 85 50% 1320
30 U. of Southern California Biochemistry $88,746 84 88% 40 12% 1500
31 College of St. Scholastica Biology $88,632 91 91% 32 74% 1200
32 Ohio Dominican Biology $88,622 92 92% 23 54% —
33 Yale Ecology and Evolutionary Biology $88,262 83 94% 20 4% 1520
34 U. of California, Santa Barbara Microbiology $88,260 90 100% 31 38% —
35 U. of California, Davis Molecular Biochemistry $87,815 90 93% 172 44% —
36 U. of Iowa Biochemistry $87,656 91 90% 31 83% 1230
37 Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology $87,380 85 75% 50 3% 1540
38 Harvard Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology $87,380 85 75% 32 3% 1540
39 Springfield Biomedical Sciences $87,357 91 100% 10 77% —
40 Worcester State Biotechnology $87,125 96 96% 18 72% —
41 Duke Anatomy $86,703 79 93% 16 5% 1540
42 Yale Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry $86,075 81 — 46 4% 1520
43 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Biotechnology $85,848 92 97% 34 68% 1410
44 Syracuse Biotechnology $85,844 84 100% 14 35% 1350
45 North Carolina State Biochemistry $85,665 91 100% 53 40% 1380
46 U. of Connecticut Molecular and Cell Biology $85,476 89 93% 164 54% 1320
47 Union College Biology $85,464 82 92% 31 35% 1400
48 Columbia Biochemistry $85,402 81 — 23 4% 1540
49 Fairfield Biology $85,315 85 93% 28 21% 1330
50 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Biochemistry $85,313 85 100% 21 60% —