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Highest Paying Physical Sciences & Math Majors

Top 50 Physical Sciences & Math 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 Pennsylvania Logic, Information, & Computation 150 5% $294,852 100 100% — 68% 16% 45% 1% 5% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 Harvard Statistics 63 4% $215,398 100 94% — 62% 21% 48% 3% 10% 13% 1440 1500 1550 100%
3 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) 97 5% $212,007 100 97% — 66% 21% 35% 3% 11% 22% 1520 1550 1570 100%
4 U. of Pennsylvania Statistics and Data Science 38 5% $185,983 100 94% — 66% 5% 39% 0% 5% 29% 1500 1530 1560 70%
5 MIT Financial Mathematics (Course 18) 20 5% $181,704 100 — — 35% 40% 30% 5% 10% 0% 1520 1550 1570 100%
6 MIT Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) 29 5% $172,247 100 82% — 69% 21% 45% 14% 10% 7% 1520 1550 1570 100%
7 Harvard Applied Mathematics 137 4% $167,135 100 96% — 58% 30% 26% 5% 8% 23% 1440 1500 1550 100%
8 Dartmouth Applied Statistics 30 6% $163,841 100 — — 43% 37% 23% 3% 13% 17% 1440 1500 1550 100%
9 Bowdoin Mathematics 23 7% $161,321 100 95% — 65% 70% 4% 4% 4% 4% 1470 1510 1540 52%
10 Northwestern Chemistry 20 7% $160,737 100 95% — 45% 30% 35% 0% 0% 20% 1510 1540 1560 69%
11 New York University Applied Mathematics 55 9% $160,551 100 93% — 78% 2% 16% 2% 7% 69% 1480 1520 1550 37%
12 Harvard Mathematics 58 4% $159,326 100 — — 74% 40% 19% 2% 5% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
13 Dartmouth Mathematics 41 6% $157,341 100 100% — 73% 34% 24% 0% 5% 34% 1440 1500 1550 100%
14 Caltech Applied and Computational Mathematics 13 4% $155,974 100 — — 62% 15% 31% 0% 38% 0% 1540 1560 1580 100%
15 Cornell Mathematics 68 8% $155,858 100 94% — 74% 26% 35% 4% 6% 21% 1490 1520 1550 56%
16 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Statistics 12 11% $155,801 100 96% — 75% 17% 25% 17% 8% 17% 1500 1530 1560 84%
17 Carnegie Mellon Statistics 126 11% $155,801 100 96% — 57% 11% 41% 2% 5% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
18 Yale Statistics & Data Science 62 3% $154,877 100 — — 60% 32% 34% 5% 13% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
19 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematics 33 5% $154,798 100 — — 67% 52% 12% 6% 12% 12% 1500 1530 1560 70%
20 Yale Applied Mathematics 19 3% $154,610 100 — — 68% 47% 32% 0% 11% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
21 Columbia Mathematics-Statistics 26 5% $153,793 100 90% — 73% 23% 19% 0% 12% 27% 1510 1540 1560 67%
22 Carnegie Mellon Computational Finance 14 11% $150,947 100 — — 57% 14% 14% 0% 7% 57% 1500 1530 1560 84%
23 Tufts Mathematics 25 11% $150,192 100 95% — 48% 48% 4% 0% 8% 24% 1460 1490 1520 58%
24 Carnegie Mellon Computational Mathematics 28 11% $149,750 100 — — 46% 14% 54% 4% 7% 21% 1500 1530 1560 84%
25 Vanderbilt Mathematics 45 5% $147,956 100 90% — 73% 27% 18% 4% 16% 24% 1510 1540 1560 52%
26 U. of Chicago Statistics 29 5% $146,200 100 91% — 62% 21% 38% 7% 7% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
27 Cornell Biometry and Statistics 32 8% $145,805 100 100% — 44% 41% 34% 0% 12% 9% 1490 1520 1550 56%
28 U. of Chicago Mathematics 168 5% $145,329 100 93% — 79% 29% 29% 1% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1560 82%
29 Northwestern Applied Mathematics 19 7% $144,423 100 100% — 74% 42% 5% 5% 11% 16% 1510 1540 1560 69%
30 Carnegie Mellon Mathematics and Statistics 23 11% $143,541 100 100% — 48% 35% 43% 0% 4% 9% 1500 1530 1560 84%
31 Yale Mathematics 54 3% $142,322 100 — — 76% 50% 17% 2% 15% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
32 Yale Mathematics 16 3% $142,303 100 — — 69% 44% 6% 12% 6% 6% 1480 1520 1560 92%
33 Stanford Mathematics 82 4% $141,974 100 — — 76% 28% 38% 1% 10% 16% 1520 1550 1570 77%
34 Princeton Mathematics 22 4% $141,685 100 — — 68% 36% 9% 5% 9% 27% 1490 1530 1560 80%
35 Swarthmore Mathematics 43 8% $141,602 100 100% — 49% 49% 14% 2% 2% 28% 1480 1520 1550 55%
36 Caltech Mathematics 18 4% $140,037 100 — — 94% 33% 11% 0% 22% 11% 1540 1560 1580 100%
37 Stevens Institute of Technology Quantitative Finance 54 51% $138,372 100 100% — 76% 63% 19% 2% 9% 0% 1370 1420 1470 40%
38 Carnegie Mellon Mathematical Sciences 23 11% $136,262 99 — — 65% 17% 48% 0% 4% 22% 1500 1530 1560 84%
39 U. of Notre Dame Mathematics and Statistics 26 9% $135,142 99 95% — 31% 65% 8% 0% 8% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
40 Georgetown Mathematics 44 14% $134,819 99 94% — 64% 64% 16% 0% 7% 5% 1400 1470 1530 100%
41 Duke Mathematics 39 5% $134,343 99 93% — 72% 28% 46% 0% 8% 13% 1510 1540 1570 75%
42 Johns Hopkins Mathematics 43 6% $132,969 99 96% — 58% 12% 35% 0% 12% 35% 1530 1550 1560 77%
43 Brown Mathematics 14 6% $131,904 99 — — 86% 57% 14% 0% 7% 14% 1470 1510 1550 100%
44 Brown Applied Mathematics 182 6% $131,779 99 92% — 70% 34% 30% 3% 8% 14% 1470 1510 1550 100%
45 Brown Computational Mathematics 13 6% $131,779 99 92% — 69% 46% 23% 0% 0% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
46 U. of Virginia Mathematics 53 16% $131,015 99 87% — 55% 49% 15% 2% 6% 15% 1410 1460 1510 60%
47 Rice Computational and Applied Mathematics 17 8% $130,783 99 — — 59% 24% 41% 12% 24% 0% 1510 1540 1560 83%
48 Rice Statistics 39 8% $130,408 99 — — 51% 33% 31% 10% 10% 8% 1510 1540 1560 83%
49 U. of California, Berkeley Statistics 78 11% $127,428 99 89% — 50% 9% 45% 0% 8% 36% — — — —
50 U. of Iowa Statistics 16 80% $127,167 99 100% — 62% 62% 6% 0% 12% 12% 1130 1230 1320 82%