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Highest ROI Humanities Majors

Top 50 Humanities college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 Amherst History 25 8% $153,409 100 95% — 60% 48% 12% 20% 4% 8% 1470 1510 1540 56%
2 Yale Special Divisional Major 117 3% $126,382 99 100% — 32% 37% 20% 18% 8% 7% 1480 1520 1560 92%
3 Georgetown Liberal Studies 33 14% $114,459 97 96% — 61% 21% 0% 21% 24% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
4 Boston University Interdisciplinary Studies 17 13% $109,458 96 88% 5.7% 59% 59% 12% 6% 0% 0% 1420 1470 1510 46%
5 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 36 16% $105,998 94 93% — 58% 72% 8% 6% 3% 3% 1370 1460 1530 73%
6 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics 183 5% $104,170 94 95% — 49% 52% 21% 4% 9% 8% 1500 1530 1560 70%
7 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy 16 5% $104,170 94 95% — 69% 56% 0% 6% 6% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
8 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Christian Ministry 22 100% $84,121 94 — — 86% 86% 0% 5% 5% 0% 1000 1130 1250 47%
9 U. of Rhode Island German 15 75% $91,305 93 100% — 73% 80% 0% 0% 7% 0% 1090 1200 1310 24%
10 Stanford Classics 10 4% $100,781 93 — — 40% 70% 0% 0% 30% 0% 1520 1550 1570 77%
11 Yale History 121 3% $103,890 93 87% — 42% 52% 12% 8% 13% 5% 1480 1520 1560 92%
12 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Philosophy 29 30% $87,204 93 94% — 48% 48% 14% 3% 24% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
13 Georgia Tech History, Technology, and Society 17 13% $89,377 92 — — 59% 47% 12% 24% 6% 12% 1370 1460 1530 100%
14 Brigham Young American Studies 16 68% $78,249 92 90% — 38% 88% 0% 0% 6% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
15 Stanford History 22 4% $98,808 92 — — 32% 41% 14% 14% 5% 5% 1520 1550 1570 77%
16 U. of North Georgia Foreign Languages 17 96% $79,604 91 95% — 29% 53% 24% 0% 12% 0% 1010 1110 1200 54%
17 Mississippi State Foreign Languages 17 84% $85,952 91 85% — 12% 12% 0% 6% 0% 76% 1000 1120 1230 88%
18 National General Studies 34 100% $74,057 90 90% 5.5% 50% 35% 0% 18% 29% 0% — — — —
19 James Madison Science, Technology and Society 61 69% $81,188 88 98% — 79% 70% 3% 7% 10% 0% 1180 1260 1330 19%
20 Brigham Young Spanish 31 68% $72,181 88 84% — 55% 87% 0% 0% 10% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
21 Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing 11 11% $93,642 87 100% — 55% 18% 9% 0% 45% 0% 1500 1530 1560 84%
22 Martin Luther Pre-Ministry 28 85% $74,624 87 100% — 100% 93% 0% 4% 0% 0% 1070 1160 1250 78%
23 U. of California, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies 76 11% $82,161 87 88% — 42% 47% 13% 4% 16% 12% — — — —
24 U. of Chicago Liberal Arts 20 5% $93,890 86 98% — 50% 70% 5% 5% 5% 10% 1500 1530 1560 82%
25 U. of California, Berkeley American Studies 40 11% $81,218 86 95% — 52% 50% 10% 10% 10% 2% — — — —
26 Emory Quantitative Sciences 109 10% $92,366 86 100% — 42% 20% 25% 5% 6% 41% 1480 1510 1540 68%
27 U. of Maryland, College Park Interdisciplinary Studies 12 45% $81,131 86 94% — 33% 42% 0% 25% 8% 0% 1410 1470 1520 44%
28 Vanderbilt Economics and History 17 5% $93,153 86 94% — 88% 76% 12% 0% 6% 0% 1510 1540 1560 52%
29 Vanderbilt History 13 5% $93,153 86 94% — 54% 46% 23% 0% 23% 0% 1510 1540 1560 52%
30 Dartmouth History 57 6% $91,301 86 98% — 63% 63% 7% 7% 9% 5% 1440 1500 1550 100%
31 U. of Hawaii - West Oahu Interdisciplinary Studies 45 95% $71,613 85 81% 3.3% 53% 7% 36% 2% 24% 0% 930 1020 1100 55%
32 Harvard History of Science 53 4% $88,287 85 94% — 19% 40% 13% 11% 25% 0% 1440 1500 1550 100%
33 Harvard History and Literature 56 4% $88,287 85 94% — 30% 41% 12% 20% 11% 2% 1440 1500 1550 100%
34 Harvard History 56 4% $88,287 85 94% — 46% 57% 9% 5% 5% 11% 1440 1500 1550 100%
35 Fordham Philosophy 28 59% $88,510 85 80% — 61% 68% 4% 4% 18% 4% 1320 1400 1480 24%
36 Binghamton Interdisciplinary Studies 151 37% $75,092 85 96% — 45% 63% 11% 4% 11% 1% 1340 1420 1500 53%
37 Lehigh Interdisciplinary Studies 24 29% $90,681 85 95% — 33% 67% 8% 17% 0% 0% 1380 1430 1480 43%
38 Stanford Philosophy 15 4% $88,628 85 — — 60% 13% 53% 7% 13% 7% 1520 1550 1570 77%
39 Columbia Near Eastern and Semitic Languages 10 5% $90,429 85 95% — 10% 10% 0% 20% 0% 30% 1510 1540 1560 67%
40 Virginia Tech Philosophy 47 55% $76,437 84 86% — 49% 64% 9% 6% 9% 2% 1270 1360 1440 50%
41 Georgetown American Studies 22 14% $88,566 83 94% — 23% 77% 9% 0% 0% 5% 1400 1470 1530 100%
42 U. of Pennsylvania Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods 21 5% $87,494 83 — — 29% 38% 0% 24% 19% 5% 1500 1530 1560 70%
43 Brigham Young History 61 68% $65,704 83 83% — 54% 69% 2% 0% 11% 3% 1290 1360 1430 54%
44 Brigham Young History 11 68% $65,704 83 83% — 18% 91% 0% 0% 9% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
45 U. of Pennsylvania Ancient History 32 5% $86,861 83 85% — 53% 50% 12% 6% 16% 9% 1500 1530 1560 70%
46 U. of Utah Rhetoric and Composition 22 82% $74,859 83 94% — 32% 73% 9% 0% 14% 5% 1190 1290 1380 48%
47 Rice History 19 8% $87,247 82 100% — 37% 63% 0% 5% 16% 11% 1510 1540 1560 83%
48 Dartmouth Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 17 6% $86,892 82 94% — 29% 29% 29% 6% 18% 12% 1440 1500 1550 100%
49 U. of Minnesota - Crookston Individualized Studies 19 58% $65,944 81 92% 3.9% 16% 68% 0% 21% 0% 0% — — — —
50 Yale Classics 10 3% $87,816 81 — — 60% 60% 10% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%