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Highest Paying Majors
Top 50 college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings
| # | College | Major | Earnings | ROI | Employ | Degrees | Accept | SAT | |
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| 1 | U. of Pennsylvania | Health Care Management & Policy | $313,615 | 100 | 95% | 20 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 2 | U. of Pennsylvania | Finance | $313,452 | 100 | 95% | 333 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 3 | U. of Pennsylvania | Logic, Information, & Computation | $298,016 | 100 | 100% | 145 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 4 | U. of Pennsylvania | Real Estate | $295,198 | 100 | 95% | 15 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 5 | U. of Pennsylvania | $279,784 | 100 | 94% | 46 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 6 | Brown | Computer Science | $271,601 | 100 | 93% | 243 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 7 | Yale | Computer Science | $271,466 | 100 | 100% | 139 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 8 | Yale | Computer Science and Economics | $271,466 | 100 | 100% | 11 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 9 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science | $251,632 | 100 | 96% | 218 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 10 | Stanford | Computer Science | $247,797 | 100 | 98% | 341 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 11 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science & Mathematics | $241,531 | 100 | 98% | 52 | 9% | 1530 |
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| 12 | U. of California, Berkeley | Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | $240,462 | 100 | 97% | 492 | 11% | — |
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| 13 | U. of Pennsylvania | Entrepreneurship & Innovation | $239,096 | 100 | 95% | 17 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 14 | Harvard | Statistics | $229,811 | 100 | 94% | 46 | 3% | 1540 |
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| 15 | U. of Chicago | Computer Science | $227,147 | 100 | 92% | 178 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 16 | MIT | Mathematics (Course 18) | $226,193 | 100 | 97% | 98 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 17 | U. of California, Berkeley | Computer Science | $225,140 | 100 | 98% | 796 | 11% | — |
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| 18 | U. of Washington - Bothell | Computer Engineering | $223,690 | 100 | 97% | 25 | 86% | 1190 |
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| 19 | U. of Washington - Tacoma | Computer Engineering and Systems | $223,690 | 100 | 97% | 12 | 83% | 1070 |
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| 20 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science | $220,204 | 100 | 93% | 37 | 9% | 1530 |
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| 21 | MIT | Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) | $220,064 | 100 | 94% | 323 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 22 | Cornell | Computer Science | $219,827 | 100 | 96% | 467 | 8% | 1530 |
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| 23 | Harvard | Computer Science | $219,550 | 100 | 97% | 184 | 3% | 1540 |
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| 24 | Princeton | Computer Science | $213,614 | 100 | 100% | 213 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 25 | Rice | Computer Science | $213,603 | 100 | 91% | 163 | 8% | 1530 |
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| 26 | Pomona | Computer Science | $212,710 | 100 | 100% | 65 | 7% | 1520 |
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| 27 | Columbia | Computer Science | $204,511 | 100 | 95% | 408 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 28 | MIT | Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) | $203,415 | 100 | — | 19 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 29 | Brown | Computer Science and Economics | $202,204 | 100 | — | 39 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 30 | Duke | Computer Science | $201,846 | 100 | 99% | 274 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 31 | Columbia | Operations Research | $199,865 | 100 | 95% | 50 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 32 | Caltech | Computer Science | $196,501 | 100 | 100% | 94 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 33 | Amherst | Computer Science | $194,751 | 100 | 94% | 48 | 8% | 1510 |
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| 34 | Dartmouth | Computer Science | $192,848 | 100 | 98% | 103 | 6% | 1500 |
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| 35 | Santa Clara | Computer Hardware Engineering | $191,635 | 100 | 98% | 18 | 48% | 1400 |
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| 36 | Santa Clara | Electrical & Computer Engineering | $191,635 | 100 | 98% | 80 | 48% | 1400 |
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| 37 | UCLA | Computer Engineering | $191,628 | 100 | 93% | 106 | 9% | — |
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| 38 | Washington University in St Louis | Finance | $190,811 | 100 | 100% | 114 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 39 | MIT | Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) | $190,731 | 100 | 96% | 58 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 40 | Columbia | Computer Engineering | $190,478 | 100 | 100% | 25 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 41 | U. of Pennsylvania | Statistics and Data Science | $188,111 | 100 | 94% | 32 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 42 | Stanford | Electrical Engineering | $187,527 | 100 | 87% | 40 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 43 | Yale | Computing and the Arts | $186,169 | 100 | — | 11 | 4% | 1520 |
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| 44 | Carnegie Mellon | Electrical & Computer Engineering | $183,814 | 100 | 99% | 192 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 45 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science and Arts | $183,688 | 100 | 98% | 10 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 46 | Carnegie Mellon | Artificial Intelligence | $183,688 | 100 | 98% | 45 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 47 | Johns Hopkins | Computer Science | $183,104 | 100 | 97% | 138 | 6% | 1550 |
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| 48 | MIT | Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) | $182,922 | 100 | 82% | 19 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 49 | U. of the Pacific | Pharmaceutical Sciences | $182,091 | 100 | 99% | 99 | 79% | 1330 |
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| 50 | U. of Southern California | Computer Science | $180,906 | 100 | 93% | 352 | 12% | 1500 |
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