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Highest ROI Business & Economics Majors

Top 50 Business & Economics college majors by ROI percentile

# 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 U. of Pennsylvania Health Care Management & Policy 23 6% $311,453 100 +12.63 100 95% — 48% 4% 52% 13% 4% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance 354 6% $310,778 100 +7.30 100 95% — 57% 25% 31% 5% 12% 21% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation 14 6% $236,473 100 +7.14 100 95% — 57% 14% 36% 21% 14% 14% 1500 1530 1560 70%
4 Washington University in St Louis Finance 101 12% $219,823 99 +4.17 100 94% — 66% 50% 19% 4% 13% 7% 1500 1530 1550 61%
5 Duke Economics 190 5% $196,507 100 +3.70 100 98% — 63% 49% 18% 3% 8% 13% 1510 1540 1570 75%
6 Wake Forest Finance 143 18% $190,983 99 +3.17 100 100% — 74% 77% 6% 1% 6% 6% 1420 1460 1490 46%
7 U. of Notre Dame Finance 307 9% $184,114 98 +2.93 100 99% — 70% 68% 5% 1% 11% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
8 Harvard Economics 278 4% $169,562 99 +2.69 100 91% — 63% 37% 18% 7% 9% 19% 1440 1500 1550 100%
9 Amherst Economics 81 8% $168,538 99 +2.65 100 97% — 69% 49% 16% 4% 12% 14% 1470 1510 1540 56%
10 Washington University in St Louis Economics and Strategy 31 12% $169,353 99 +2.68 100 100% — 52% 52% 19% 3% 19% 3% 1500 1530 1550 61%
11 Georgetown Finance 223 13% $165,925 98 +2.31 100 98% — 69% 62% 15% 2% 6% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
12 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Business Administration 635 16% $165,552 100 +4.57 100 98% — 55% 45% 29% 4% 8% 4% 1370 1460 1530 73%
13 Williams Economics 97 9% $166,577 98 +2.58 100 92% — 63% 56% 14% 2% 10% 7% 1490 1520 1550 61%
14 U. of Chicago Economics 653 5% $165,870 97 +2.55 100 98% — 58% 26% 26% 4% 13% 23% 1500 1530 1560 82%
15 Yale Economics 199 4% $164,181 96 +2.49 100 97% — 57% 39% 15% 6% 8% 25% 1480 1520 1560 92%
16 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Mathematical Sciences 49 11% $159,790 96 +2.32 100 100% — 71% 20% 33% 0% 12% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
17 Brigham Young Finance 196 68% $135,771 93 +1.27 100 93% — 87% 84% 1% 1% 6% 5% 1290 1360 1430 54%
18 Dartmouth Quantitative Economics 128 6% $158,356 95 +2.27 100 96% — 68% 41% 16% 3% 7% 21% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 U. of Pennsylvania Business Economics & Public Policy 14 6% $157,002 95 +2.22 100 — — 50% 43% 14% 7% 21% 0% 1500 1530 1560 70%
20 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Business Administration 407 17% $149,075 99 +3.72 100 98% — 59% 54% 16% 6% 8% 8% 1400 1460 1520 69%
21 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Organizational Leadership 26 17% $149,075 100 +5.27 100 98% — 15% 54% 8% 4% 27% 8% 1400 1460 1520 69%
22 Washington University in St Louis Healthcare Management 11 12% $158,880 99 +4.77 100 — — 27% 27% 27% 27% 18% 0% 1500 1530 1550 61%
23 Georgetown Accounting 11 13% $155,806 100 +4.45 100 95% — 36% 73% 0% 9% 9% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
24 Carnegie Mellon Business Administration 191 11% $153,969 99 +3.97 100 96% — 44% 25% 39% 4% 12% 12% 1500 1530 1560 84%
25 Colgate Quantitative Economics 118 18% $155,083 95 +2.15 100 98% — 64% 68% 7% 2% 6% 13% 1450 1480 1510 39%
26 Georgetown Global Business 51 13% $154,435 99 +3.13 100 94% — 53% 45% 18% 2% 18% 6% 1400 1470 1530 100%
27 Wake Forest Business 98 18% $154,692 99 +4.01 100 98% — 32% 76% 4% 6% 8% 3% 1420 1460 1490 46%
28 Baylor Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations 36 52% $152,689 100 +5.84 100 100% — 67% 78% 3% 0% 14% 3% 1190 1280 1370 69%
29 Boston College Entrepreneurship 48 13% $153,624 100 +3.46 100 100% — 54% 79% 0% 6% 8% 0% 1440 1490 1540 45%
30 Vanderbilt Economics 203 4% $153,824 95 +2.10 100 96% — 66% 38% 19% 4% 12% 18% 1510 1540 1560 52%
31 U. of Texas at Austin Management Information Systems and Statistics 203 27% $142,840 99 +2.89 100 99% — 48% 18% 59% 2% 14% 2% 1320 1450 1530 74%
32 Brigham Young Supply Chain Management 128 68% $127,790 96 +2.02 100 96% — 61% 72% 5% 0% 13% 4% 1290 1360 1430 54%
33 Brigham Young Business Management 39 68% $127,790 97 +2.61 100 96% — 82% 90% 0% 0% 8% 3% 1290 1360 1430 54%
34 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Real Estate and Urban Land Economics 140 41% $142,833 96 +1.98 100 96% — 72% 70% 4% 1% 12% 1% 1400 1450 1490 41%
35 Cornell Economics 143 9% $152,157 94 +2.04 100 94% — 57% 30% 22% 3% 11% 22% 1490 1520 1550 56%
36 Cornell Development Economics and International Development 23 9% $152,157 94 +2.04 100 94% — 61% 30% 13% 4% 26% 17% 1490 1520 1550 56%
37 U. of Texas at Austin Finance 433 27% $141,497 95 +1.46 100 94% — 64% 38% 31% 3% 20% 3% 1320 1450 1530 74%
38 Southern Methodist Finance 261 48% $152,081 97 +1.83 100 93% — 71% 63% 14% 2% 11% 3% 1340 1420 1490 25%
39 Claremont McKenna Economics 110 9% $150,696 94 +1.98 100 96% — 62% 29% 18% 2% 13% 26% 1480 1510 1540 48%
40 U. of Pennsylvania Artificial Intelligence for Business 72 6% $148,565 100 +3.21 99 96% — 39% 17% 31% 14% 8% 28% 1500 1530 1560 70%
41 U. of Pennsylvania Operations, Information & Decisions 27 6% $148,565 100 +3.21 99 96% — 44% 22% 19% 15% 11% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
42 Tulane Finance 350 15% $151,396 97 +1.80 99 98% — 71% 75% 3% 1% 7% 11% 1430 1470 1500 38%
43 Wake Forest Business Analytics 17 18% $150,546 100 +3.33 99 100% — 59% 65% 12% 0% 0% 18% 1420 1460 1490 46%
44 U. of Pennsylvania Management 39 6% $147,336 99 +3.63 99 94% — 59% 31% 15% 18% 13% 5% 1500 1530 1560 70%
45 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Finance 267 37% $137,504 94 +1.32 99 97% — 76% 40% 22% 4% 18% 10% 1390 1460 1520 57%
46 U. of California, Berkeley Business Administration 408 11% $139,642 99 +3.23 99 95% — 45% 14% 47% 2% 10% 15% — — — —
47 Brigham Young Accounting 10 68% $123,986 98 +2.39 99 94% — 60% 60% 0% 0% 30% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
48 George Washington Business Administration 105 47% $147,366 99 +3.63 99 92% — 54% 48% 12% 8% 11% 17% 1310 1380 1450 50%
49 Auburn Business Analytics 81 47% $134,064 99 +2.38 99 96% — 60% 84% 6% 0% 1% 2% 1280 1330 1370 90%
50 Manhattan Organizational Leadership 25 62% $138,302 100 +4.49 99 94% — 68% 28% 0% 44% 4% 0% — — — —