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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 Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania Logic, Information, & Computation $298,016 100 100% 145 5% 1540
2 Harvard Statistics $229,811 100 94% 46 3% 1540
3 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) $226,193 100 97% 98 5% 1550
4 U. of Pennsylvania Statistics and Data Science $188,111 100 94% 32 5% 1540
5 MIT Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) $182,922 100 82% 19 5% 1550
6 MIT Financial Mathematics (Course 18) $180,550 100 — 19 5% 1550
7 Harvard Applied Mathematics $178,318 100 96% 128 3% 1540
8 Caltech Applied and Computational Mathematics $176,629 100 — 10 4% 1550
9 New York University Applied Mathematics $172,750 100 93% 56 9% 1520
10 Columbia Mathematics-Statistics $165,479 100 90% 27 4% 1540
11 Dartmouth Mathematics $165,208 100 100% 44 6% 1500
12 Cornell Mathematics $162,763 100 94% 60 8% 1530
13 Northwestern Chemistry $161,473 100 95% 14 7% 1540
14 Harvard Mathematics $160,353 100 — 48 3% 1540
15 Tufts Mathematics $160,242 100 95% 29 10% 1510
16 Bowdoin Mathematics $159,954 100 95% 26 7% 1500
17 Stanford Mathematical and Computational Science $159,891 100 — 33 4% 1550
18 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematics $158,226 100 — 29 5% 1540
19 Yale Applied Mathematics $157,620 100 — 14 4% 1520
20 Yale Statistics & Data Science $157,118 100 — 26 4% 1520
21 Carnegie Mellon Statistics $155,025 100 96% 106 11% 1530
22 Stevens Institute of Technology Quantitative Finance $153,291 100 100% 57 51% 1420
23 Cornell Biometry and Statistics $152,425 100 100% 25 8% 1530
24 Carnegie Mellon Computational Finance $150,241 100 — 11 11% 1530
25 Carnegie Mellon Computational Mathematics $148,132 100 — 23 11% 1530
26 Dartmouth Applied Statistics $148,024 100 — 29 6% 1500
27 U. of Chicago Statistics $147,558 100 91% 27 5% 1540
28 U. of Chicago Mathematics $146,679 100 93% 134 5% 1540
29 Northwestern Applied Mathematics $145,765 100 100% 11 7% 1540
30 U. of California, Berkeley Statistics $145,658 100 89% 64 11% —
31 U. of California, Berkeley Applied Mathematics $144,689 100 93% 177 11% —
32 Stanford Mathematics $144,231 100 — 57 4% 1550
33 Princeton Mathematics $144,048 100 — 29 4% 1540
34 Swarthmore Mathematics $143,223 99 100% 29 7% 1520
35 Yale Mathematics $142,927 99 — 56 4% 1520
36 Carnegie Mellon Mathematics and Statistics $142,826 99 100% 23 11% 1530
37 Williams Statistics $141,095 99 — 10 7% 1520
38 Yale Mathematics $140,651 99 — 13 4% 1520
39 Vanderbilt Mathematics $140,068 99 90% 30 4% 1530
40 Johns Hopkins Mathematics $138,612 99 96% 43 6% 1550
41 Carnegie Mellon Mathematical Sciences $138,246 99 — 24 11% 1530
42 Georgetown Mathematics $138,020 99 94% 32 14% 1470
43 Tufts Applied Mathematics $135,696 99 — 11 10% 1510
44 Brown Computational Mathematics $135,511 99 92% 30 5% 1540
45 Brown Applied Mathematics $135,511 99 92% 159 5% 1540
46 U. of Virginia Mathematics $133,210 99 87% 35 12% 1470
47 Columbia Applied Mathematics $132,761 99 100% 54 4% 1540
48 Brown Mathematics $132,751 99 — 17 5% 1540
49 Duke Mathematics $131,658 99 93% 47 5% 1540
50 Williams Mathematics $131,618 99 93% 29 7% 1520