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Highest ROI Life & Natural Sciences Majors

Top 50 Life & Natural Sciences college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of California, San Diego Bioinformatics $138,331 99 100% 98 29% —
2 Brigham Young Bioinformatics $106,705 99 94% 25 35% 1360
3 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology $103,618 98 98% 133 72% 1150
4 U. of California, Berkeley Microbial Biology $101,475 97 100% 80 11% —
5 Worcester State Biotechnology $87,125 96 96% 18 72% —
6 U. of the Pacific Biology $101,618 96 97% 132 79% 1330
7 U. of La Verne Biology $98,134 95 94% 42 72% —
8 CUNY Hunter Biology $84,662 95 92% 193 28% 1260
9 Towson Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology $90,110 95 93% 32 88% 1100
10 San Jose State Environmental Science $83,305 94 88% 53 50% —
11 CUNY Hunter Human Biology $81,752 94 100% 414 28% 1260
12 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Veterinary and Animal Sciences $89,862 93 100% 77 60% 1410
13 Endicott Biotechnology $89,874 93 100% 14 62% 1270
14 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology $93,489 93 89% 70 44% —
15 U. of California, Berkeley Conservation and Resource Studies $89,932 93 92% 86 11% —
16 San Francisco State Biochemistry $80,520 93 93% 41 93% —
17 Cal Poly - Pomona Biotechnology $80,268 92 95% 34 42% —
18 Loyola University Maryland Biology $95,658 92 93% 66 84% 1280
19 George Mason Neuroscience $88,888 92 87% 70 72% 1260
20 Dominican University of California Biology $91,956 92 94% 23 93% —
21 Cal State Northridge Biology $79,403 92 91% 255 88% —
22 CUNY City Biology $78,147 92 91% 115 42% 1250
23 CUNY City Biomedical Sciences $78,147 92 91% 74 42% 1250
24 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Biotechnology $85,848 92 97% 34 68% 1410
25 Ohio Dominican Biology $88,622 92 92% 23 54% —
26 San Diego State Microbiology $79,500 92 100% 29 37% —
27 Northeastern Biochemistry $97,781 92 85% 88 24% 1490
28 Fresno State Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management $78,715 92 98% 63 65% —
29 San Jose State Biology $79,095 92 97% 178 50% —
30 Saint Cloud State Biomedical Sciences $77,085 92 97% 36 85% 1140
31 Northeastern Biology $97,536 92 93% 126 24% 1490
32 U. of Iowa Biochemistry $87,656 91 90% 31 83% 1230
33 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry-Molecular Biology $90,796 91 80% 51 38% —
34 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry $90,796 91 80% 27 38% —
35 Cal State Fullerton Biological Science $78,137 91 97% 242 52% —
36 College of St. Scholastica Biology $88,632 91 91% 32 74% 1200
37 U. of California, Davis Microbiology $90,315 91 94% 81 44% —
38 North Carolina State Biochemistry $85,665 91 100% 53 40% 1380
39 U. of Houston Biotechnology $81,038 91 85% 84 66% 1250
40 Montclair State Molecular Biology $79,889 91 92% 19 72% —
41 Montclair State Biochemistry $79,889 91 92% 16 72% —
42 Springfield Biomedical Sciences $87,357 91 100% 10 77% —
43 Seton Hall Biology $90,211 91 98% 171 69% 1300
44 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice Cellular and Molecular Biology $75,601 91 100% 32 42% —
45 Cal State San Marcos Biology $76,916 90 96% 161 78% —
46 Kansas State Agricultural and Food Products Processing $83,856 90 97% 23 95% 1160
47 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Viticulture and Enology $82,237 90 95% 65 30% —
48 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Food Science $82,237 90 95% 42 30% —
49 Cal State Fullerton Biochemistry $76,273 90 93% 54 52% —
50 Cal State East Bay Biochemistry $76,306 90 96% 10 75% —