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Highest Paying Majors

Top 50 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 Health Care Management & Policy 23 5% $311,458 100 95% — 48% 4% 52% 13% 4% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance 354 5% $310,624 100 95% — 57% 25% 31% 5% 12% 21% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 U. of Pennsylvania Logic, Information, & Computation 150 5% $294,852 100 100% — 68% 16% 45% 1% 5% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
4 U. of Pennsylvania International Studies 45 5% $277,260 100 94% — 44% 33% 27% 4% 9% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
5 Brown Computer Science 243 6% $265,622 100 93% — 58% 26% 31% 7% 12% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
6 Yale Computer Science and Economics 10 3% $262,438 100 100% — 90% 30% 30% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
7 Yale Computer Science 145 3% $262,438 100 100% — 72% 17% 43% 4% 7% 21% 1480 1520 1560 92%
8 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science 280 11% $253,580 100 96% — 64% 14% 38% 2% 8% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
9 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation 14 5% $236,323 100 95% — 57% 14% 36% 21% 14% 14% 1500 1530 1560 70%
10 U. of Chicago Computer Science 174 5% $224,666 100 92% — 67% 30% 28% 6% 9% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
11 Stanford Computer Science 446 4% $221,819 100 98% — 65% 15% 46% 7% 11% 11% 1520 1550 1570 77%
12 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics 54 12% $220,132 100 98% — 59% 7% 31% 11% 15% 26% 1500 1530 1560 76%
13 Brown Computer Science and Economics 57 6% $220,082 100 — — 74% 37% 28% 5% 5% 21% 1470 1510 1550 100%
14 Rice Computer Science 197 8% $215,952 100 91% — 65% 17% 46% 6% 11% 17% 1510 1540 1560 83%
15 Harvard Statistics 63 4% $215,398 100 94% — 62% 21% 48% 3% 10% 13% 1440 1500 1550 100%
16 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) 97 5% $212,007 100 97% — 66% 21% 35% 3% 11% 22% 1520 1550 1570 100%
17 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 505 11% $210,366 100 97% — 78% 15% 51% 1% 11% 12% — — — —
18 Cornell Computer Science 516 8% $209,884 100 96% — 63% 18% 43% 5% 10% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
19 Duke Computer Science 238 5% $207,237 100 99% — 61% 27% 29% 5% 13% 15% 1510 1540 1570 75%
20 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) 323 5% $206,801 100 94% — 58% 12% 45% 6% 13% 12% 1520 1550 1570 100%
21 Harvard Computer Science 224 4% $206,318 100 97% — 66% 17% 42% 5% 8% 20% 1440 1500 1550 100%
22 Yale Computing and the Arts 17 3% $205,072 100 — — 29% 12% 47% 6% 18% 6% 1480 1520 1560 92%
23 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Engineering 13 86% $203,232 100 97% — 85% 46% 38% 0% 0% 8% 1030 1200 1360 17%
24 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems 10 83% $203,232 100 97% — 80% 30% 30% 10% 30% 0% 940 1070 1200 17%
25 Washington University in St Louis Finance 101 12% $203,101 100 100% — 66% 50% 19% 4% 13% 7% 1500 1530 1550 61%
26 Princeton Computer Science 194 4% $201,352 100 100% — 58% 20% 35% 9% 10% 16% 1490 1530 1560 80%
27 Harvey Mudd Computer Science 54 12% $200,694 100 93% — 52% 19% 28% 7% 22% 4% 1500 1530 1560 76%
28 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science 915 11% $196,962 100 98% — 71% 10% 50% 0% 5% 23% — — — —
29 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics 20 3% $195,418 100 — — 75% 30% 35% 0% 25% 0% 1480 1520 1560 92%
30 Pomona Computer Science 77 7% $193,864 100 100% — 69% 29% 19% 8% 9% 23% 1490 1520 1550 49%
31 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) 85 5% $193,751 100 — — 59% 20% 39% 11% 7% 16% 1520 1550 1570 100%
32 Duke Mathematics and Computer Science 10 5% $190,434 100 — — 90% 40% 40% 0% 10% 10% 1510 1540 1570 75%
33 Columbia Computer Science 377 5% $189,073 100 95% — 64% 21% 29% 8% 12% 23% 1510 1540 1560 67%
34 Amherst Computer Science 59 8% $187,720 100 94% — 59% 20% 17% 5% 17% 36% 1470 1510 1540 56%
35 Southwestern Oklahoma State Pharmaceutical Sciences 71 100% $186,372 100 100% — 52% 52% 13% 7% 10% 0% — — — —
36 Columbia Operations Research 55 5% $186,286 100 95% — 53% 15% 24% 7% 7% 36% 1510 1540 1560 67%
37 U. of Pennsylvania Statistics and Data Science 38 5% $185,983 100 94% — 66% 5% 39% 0% 5% 29% 1500 1530 1560 70%
38 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering 247 11% $185,819 100 99% — 58% 19% 30% 5% 9% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
39 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science and Arts 14 11% $185,110 100 98% — 79% 29% 36% 0% 0% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
40 Carnegie Mellon Information Technology 12 11% $185,110 100 98% — 42% 8% 17% 8% 42% 8% 1500 1530 1560 84%
41 Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 38 11% $185,110 100 98% — 50% 8% 42% 5% 13% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
42 Dartmouth Computer Science 136 6% $183,665 100 98% — 67% 36% 18% 4% 6% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
43 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science 160 12% $183,662 100 100% — 64% 29% 26% 10% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1550 61%
44 MIT Financial Mathematics (Course 18) 20 5% $181,704 100 — — 35% 40% 30% 5% 10% 0% 1520 1550 1570 100%
45 Bowdoin Computer Science 42 7% $179,741 100 95% — 79% 38% 17% 10% 14% 12% 1470 1510 1540 52%
46 MIT Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) 59 5% $179,558 100 96% — 68% 15% 34% 12% 12% 10% 1520 1550 1570 100%
47 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering 106 5% $179,140 100 98% — 77% 35% 33% 4% 9% 12% 1510 1540 1570 75%
48 Columbia Information Science/Studies 23 5% $178,806 100 — — 57% 35% 17% 9% 9% 17% 1510 1540 1560 67%
49 Washington University in St Louis Entrepreneurship 11 12% $178,729 100 — — 55% 82% 9% 0% 9% 0% 1500 1530 1550 61%
50 Columbia Computer Engineering 21 5% $177,537 100 100% — 52% 33% 24% 19% 10% 14% 1510 1540 1560 67%