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Highest ROI Computer Science Majors

Top 50 Computer Science college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Yale Computer Science $271,466 100 100% 139 4% 1520
2 Brown Computer Science $271,601 100 93% 243 5% 1540
3 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science $251,632 100 96% 218 11% 1530
4 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences $240,462 100 97% 492 11%
5 Stanford Computer Science $247,797 100 98% 341 4% 1550
6 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics $241,531 100 98% 52 9% 1530
7 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science $225,140 100 98% 796 11%
8 U. of Chicago Computer Science $227,147 100 92% 178 5% 1540
9 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) $220,064 100 94% 323 5% 1550
10 Harvard Computer Science $219,550 100 97% 184 3% 1540
11 Harvey Mudd Computer Science $220,204 100 93% 37 9% 1530
12 Cornell Computer Science $219,827 100 96% 467 8% 1530
13 Princeton Computer Science $213,614 100 100% 213 4% 1540
14 Pomona Computer Science $212,710 100 100% 65 7% 1520
15 Rice Computer Science $213,603 100 91% 163 8% 1530
16 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) $203,415 100 19 5% 1550
17 Columbia Computer Science $204,511 100 95% 408 4% 1540
18 Brown Computer Science and Economics $202,204 100 39 5% 1540
19 Caltech Computer Science $196,501 100 100% 94 4% 1550
20 Duke Computer Science $201,846 100 99% 274 5% 1540
21 Amherst Computer Science $194,751 100 94% 48 8% 1510
22 Dartmouth Computer Science $192,848 100 98% 103 6% 1500
23 Yale Computing and the Arts $186,169 100 11 4% 1520
24 Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence $183,688 100 98% 45 11% 1530
25 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science and Arts $183,688 100 98% 10 11% 1530
26 MIT Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) $178,969 100 39 5% 1550
27 Johns Hopkins Computer Science $183,104 100 97% 138 6% 1550
28 San Jose State Computer Science $160,714 100 93% 182 50%
29 U. of Southern California Computer Science $180,906 100 93% 352 12% 1500
30 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Science $170,405 100 99% 361 37% 1410
31 Bowdoin Computer Science $177,788 100 95% 33 7% 1500
32 Wellesley Computer Science $173,669 100 97% 49 14% 1510
33 U. of Washington Computer Science $162,117 100 94% 515 42% 1410
34 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information Technology and Web Science $170,829 100 100% 23 67% 1440
35 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Science and Software Engineering $162,117 100 94% 241 86% 1190
36 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Science $171,166 100 96% 95 5% 1540
37 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science $173,525 100 100% 210 12% 1530
38 Brigham Young Software Engineering $146,934 100 97% 53 35% 1360
39 Tufts Computer Science $168,606 100 95% 177 10% 1510
40 Sonoma State Computer Science $147,502 100 97% 48 82%
41 Georgia Tech Computer Science $155,126 100 96% 1,206 13% 1460
42 Georgia Tech Computational Media $155,126 100 96% 76 13% 1460
43 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics $168,436 100 14 4% 1520
44 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Science $151,688 100 100% 219 30%
45 Emory Computer Science $166,603 100 94% 73 12% 1500
46 U. of California, San Diego Computer Science $160,463 100 94% 415 29%
47 U. of Southern California Computer Science (Games) $165,219 100 91% 45 12% 1500
48 Columbia Information Science/Studies $164,846 100 11 4% 1540
49 Williams Computer Science $163,743 100 96% 56 7% 1520
50 San Jose State Software Engineering $143,080 100 100% 156 50%