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Highest Paying Computer Science Majors

Top 50 Computer Science college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings Earn % Earn z ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science 280 11% $274,277 100 +4.37 100 94% — 64% 14% 38% 2% 8% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
2 Yale Computer Science 145 4% $262,452 100 +4.02 100 100% — 72% 17% 43% 4% 7% 21% 1480 1520 1560 92%
3 Yale Computer Science & Economics 10 4% $262,452 100 +3.50 100 100% — 90% 30% 30% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
4 Brown Computer Science 243 6% $229,684 99 +3.06 100 97% — 58% 26% 31% 7% 12% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
5 Cornell Computer Science 516 9% $228,271 99 +3.02 100 97% — 63% 18% 43% 5% 10% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
6 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics 54 12% $220,132 100 +2.45 100 98% — 59% 7% 31% 11% 15% 26% 1500 1530 1560 76%
7 Caltech Computer Science 88 4% $219,602 98 +2.77 100 97% — 59% 10% 51% 8% 14% 11% 1540 1560 1580 100%
8 Rice Computer Science 197 8% $215,464 98 +2.65 100 94% — 65% 17% 46% 6% 11% 17% 1510 1540 1560 83%
9 Stanford Computer Science 446 4% $211,945 98 +2.55 100 95% — 65% 15% 46% 7% 11% 11% 1520 1550 1570 77%
10 Dartmouth Computer Science 136 6% $207,136 97 +2.41 100 95% — 67% 36% 18% 4% 6% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
11 Columbia Computer Science 377 4% $205,718 97 +2.36 100 93% — 64% 21% 29% 8% 12% 23% 1510 1540 1560 67%
12 Johns Hopkins Computer Science 146 6% $203,258 97 +2.29 100 97% — 60% 18% 36% 8% 10% 22% 1530 1550 1560 77%
13 Princeton Computer Science 194 4% $201,879 97 +2.25 100 100% — 58% 20% 35% 9% 10% 16% 1490 1530 1560 80%
14 Brown Computer Science & Economics 57 6% $201,560 93 +1.99 100 — — 74% 37% 28% 5% 5% 21% 1470 1510 1550 100%
15 Duke Computer Science 238 5% $200,817 96 +2.22 100 98% — 61% 27% 29% 5% 13% 15% 1510 1540 1570 75%
16 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science 915 11% $199,871 96 +2.19 100 96% — 71% 10% 50% 0% 5% 23% — — — —
17 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics 20 4% $197,021 91 +1.87 100 — — 75% 30% 35% 0% 25% 0% 1480 1520 1560 92%
18 Harvard Computer Science 224 4% $196,298 94 +2.09 100 94% — 66% 17% 42% 5% 8% 20% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 505 11% $195,999 94 +2.08 100 97% — 78% 15% 51% 1% 11% 12% — — — —
20 Northwestern Computer Science 137 7% $194,600 94 +2.04 100 93% — 72% 28% 30% 5% 8% 20% 1520 1540 1560 73%
21 Pomona Computer Science 77 7% $193,864 94 +2.02 100 100% — 69% 29% 19% 8% 9% 23% 1490 1520 1550 49%
22 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Science 458 37% $191,898 94 +1.96 100 96% — 70% 15% 48% 2% 3% 29% 1390 1460 1520 57%
23 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) 323 5% $191,593 93 +1.95 100 93% — 58% 12% 45% 6% 13% 12% 1520 1550 1570 100%
24 Amherst Computer Science 59 8% $187,721 93 +1.84 100 94% — 59% 20% 17% 5% 17% 36% 1470 1510 1540 56%
25 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science 160 12% $186,118 93 +1.79 100 94% — 64% 29% 26% 10% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1550 61%
26 U. of Chicago Computer Science 174 5% $185,851 92 +1.78 100 100% — 67% 30% 28% 6% 9% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
27 Colgate Computer Science 71 18% $183,437 92 +1.71 100 100% — 59% 46% 11% 6% 4% 18% 1450 1480 1510 39%
28 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) 85 5% $181,134 90 +1.57 100 — — 59% 20% 39% 11% 7% 16% 1520 1550 1570 100%
29 Bowdoin Computer Science 42 7% $179,743 92 +1.60 100 95% — 79% 38% 17% 10% 14% 12% 1470 1510 1540 52%
30 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Computer Science 1,216 16% $179,413 91 +1.59 100 97% — 74% 31% 34% 1% 4% 18% 1370 1460 1530 73%
31 Duke Computer Science & Mathematics 10 5% $179,037 91 +1.43 100 — — 90% 40% 40% 0% 10% 10% 1510 1540 1570 75%
32 Northwestern Data Science and Society 123 7% $178,810 100 +3.08 100 97% 1.4% 59% 27% 27% 7% 15% 12% 1520 1540 1560 73%
33 MIT Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) 28 5% $178,343 100 +3.06 100 — — 54% 14% 39% 18% 14% 4% 1520 1550 1570 100%
34 Wellesley Computer Science 55 15% $175,058 91 +1.47 100 95% — 0% 9% 29% 7% 9% 35% 1460 1500 1540 62%
35 U. of Notre Dame Computer Science 139 9% $173,230 91 +1.41 100 97% — 68% 56% 10% 5% 13% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
36 U. of Southern California Computer Science 378 11% $172,362 90 +1.39 100 97% — 66% 15% 45% 4% 10% 19% 1470 1510 1540 45%
37 Emory Computer Science 91 10% $171,612 90 +1.37 100 91% — 68% 18% 25% 10% 11% 33% 1480 1510 1540 68%
38 Columbia Computer Science & Mathematics 25 4% $170,985 90 +1.22 100 — — 52% 32% 16% 0% 8% 24% 1510 1540 1560 67%
39 Swarthmore Computer Science 52 8% $169,755 90 +1.31 100 89% — 77% 13% 17% 12% 15% 29% 1480 1520 1550 55%
40 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Science 89 6% $169,396 90 +1.30 100 95% — 58% 11% 48% 3% 6% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
41 Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 38 11% $169,319 76 +1.16 100 100% — 50% 8% 42% 5% 13% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
42 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science & Arts 14 11% $169,319 89 +1.18 100 100% — 79% 29% 36% 0% 0% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
43 Carnegie Mellon Information Technology 12 11% $169,319 100 +3.46 100 100% — 42% 8% 17% 8% 42% 8% 1500 1530 1560 84%
44 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Science and Software Engineering 221 86% $167,813 90 +1.25 100 95% — 76% 27% 46% 5% 4% 6% 1030 1200 1360 17%
45 U. of Washington Computer Science 561 42% $167,813 90 +1.25 100 95% — 65% 17% 53% 3% 3% 12% 1320 1410 1500 24%
46 Hamilton Computer Science 43 14% $166,709 89 +1.22 100 — — 67% 47% 16% 2% 5% 21% 1440 1480 1510 48%
47 U. of Chicago Data Science 49 5% $164,147 95 +2.41 100 — — 45% 27% 24% 8% 12% 16% 1500 1530 1560 82%
48 Lehigh Computer Science 163 29% $164,013 89 +1.14 100 98% — 70% 42% 25% 6% 10% 12% 1380 1430 1480 43%
49 Columbia Information Science 23 4% $163,909 100 +3.19 100 — — 57% 35% 17% 9% 9% 17% 1510 1540 1560 67%
50 Bowdoin Computer Science & Mathematics 11 7% $163,329 88 +1.03 100 — — 64% 27% 18% 0% 27% 9% 1470 1510 1540 52%