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Highest ROI Social Sciences Majors

Top 50 Social Sciences 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 U. of Pennsylvania International Studies 45 5% $277,260 100 94% — 44% 33% 27% 4% 9% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 Stanford Communication 22 4% $152,368 100 92% — 41% 23% 27% 27% 5% 0% 1520 1550 1570 77%
3 National Public Administration 17 100% $99,394 98 100% 4.8% 41% 18% 0% 12% 41% 0% — — — —
4 Tufts Cognitive Science 47 11% $120,704 98 100% — 32% 45% 13% 13% 6% 6% 1460 1490 1520 58%
5 MIT Computation and Cognition (Course 6-9) 55 5% $115,069 98 — — 33% 25% 31% 18% 11% 5% 1520 1550 1570 100%
6 Brigham Young International Affairs 26 68% $95,685 98 93% — 58% 62% 4% 0% 15% 8% 1290 1360 1430 54%
7 Yale Political Science 119 3% $119,348 98 91% — 55% 46% 11% 10% 13% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
8 Stanford Symbolic Systems 113 4% $115,491 98 96% — 54% 21% 32% 9% 15% 13% 1520 1550 1570 77%
9 Stanford International Relations 79 4% $115,196 98 92% — 29% 29% 15% 6% 23% 10% 1520 1550 1570 77%
10 Middlebury International Studies 45 13% $117,243 98 82% — 49% 38% 11% 2% 27% 16% 1460 1500 1530 49%
11 Duke Public Policy Studies 151 5% $116,508 97 95% — 26% 54% 11% 13% 11% 1% 1510 1540 1570 75%
12 Harvard Government 141 4% $109,910 97 94% — 54% 42% 14% 11% 15% 11% 1440 1500 1550 100%
13 U. of Pennsylvania Political Science 98 5% $110,430 97 89% — 51% 35% 11% 16% 19% 11% 1500 1530 1560 70%
14 U. of Virginia Public Policy 120 16% $109,477 96 95% — 35% 67% 7% 8% 7% 2% 1410 1460 1510 60%
15 U. of Pennsylvania Legal Studies & Business Ethics 10 5% $110,020 96 — — 40% 40% 20% 10% 30% 0% 1500 1530 1560 70%
16 Brigham Young Humanities 31 68% $88,101 96 82% — 16% 90% 0% 0% 3% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
17 U. of California, Berkeley Social Sciences 223 11% $99,114 96 92% — 43% 22% 23% 2% 25% 17% — — — —
18 U. of Pennsylvania Cognitive Science 95 5% $108,539 96 90% — 31% 26% 28% 9% 6% 23% 1500 1530 1560 70%
19 Yale Humanities 24 3% $107,780 95 99% — 38% 54% 12% 12% 8% 4% 1480 1520 1560 92%
20 Yale Cognitive Science 66 3% $107,334 95 — — 26% 29% 23% 18% 12% 12% 1480 1520 1560 92%
21 Johns Hopkins Political Science 23 6% $104,234 94 90% — 61% 35% 13% 4% 43% 4% 1530 1550 1560 77%
22 Georgia Tech Literature, Media, and Communication 64 13% $91,315 93 93% — 44% 39% 41% 9% 3% 3% 1370 1460 1530 100%
23 Brigham Young Government 67 68% $80,629 93 88% — 48% 70% 4% 0% 18% 1% 1290 1360 1430 54%
24 Brigham Young Political Science 51 68% $80,629 93 88% — 43% 80% 0% 0% 18% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
25 Carnegie Mellon International Relations and Politics 16 11% $102,294 93 — — 25% 44% 19% 0% 19% 6% 1500 1530 1560 84%
26 Connecticut Government 22 39% $100,940 92 100% — 41% 82% 0% 5% 9% 0% 1160 1270 1370 66%
27 Yale Global Affairs 76 3% $102,512 92 — — 50% 28% 20% 4% 22% 20% 1480 1520 1560 92%
28 Cornell Public Policy 42 8% $102,419 92 97% — 21% 26% 31% 14% 7% 10% 1490 1520 1550 56%
29 Columbia Cognitive Science 33 5% $101,012 92 — — 30% 39% 15% 9% 12% 21% 1510 1540 1560 67%
30 Duke Political Science 81 5% $104,260 92 97% — 60% 51% 9% 6% 20% 5% 1510 1540 1570 75%
31 U. of Alaska - Anchorage Geomatics 10 88% $81,479 91 96% — 70% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% — — — —
32 Brown International and Public Affairs 110 6% $101,154 91 94% — 36% 43% 10% 7% 14% 10% 1470 1510 1550 100%
33 Pennsylvania State Sustainability Studies 12 55% $89,582 91 100% — 75% 92% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1280 1350 1410 34%
34 Pomona Cognitive Science 11 7% $96,158 91 — — 18% 27% 27% 18% 9% 18% 1490 1520 1550 49%
35 UCLA Public Affairs 120 9% $91,424 91 91% — 17% 33% 17% 3% 28% 3% — — — —
36 U. of California, Berkeley Cognitive Science 280 11% $88,054 91 97% — 23% 18% 45% 1% 12% 12% — — — —
37 Muhlenberg Political Science 12 35% $97,228 91 100% — 25% 83% 8% 0% 0% 0% 1250 1330 1410 22%
38 Utah Valley Political Science 53 100% $80,142 90 84% — 60% 83% 0% 0% 9% 0% — — — —
39 Harvard Psychology 101 4% $95,666 90 89% — 33% 44% 8% 9% 22% 9% 1440 1500 1550 100%
40 Radford Political Science 24 89% $81,584 90 96% — 42% 71% 0% 17% 8% 0% 950 1050 1140 12%
41 U. of Chicago Public Policy Studies 66 5% $99,298 90 94% — 27% 38% 9% 18% 29% 2% 1500 1530 1560 82%
42 U. of Illinois Springfield Public Administration 12 79% $79,567 89 97% — 50% 83% 0% 8% 0% 0% 940 1070 1200 43%
43 UCLA Development Studies 100 9% $88,967 89 94% — 33% 18% 19% 4% 33% 13% — — — —
44 Dartmouth Government 126 6% $96,289 89 93% — 59% 57% 10% 7% 11% 6% 1440 1500 1550 100%
45 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Political Science 76 30% $81,467 89 96% — 36% 58% 7% 1% 26% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
46 Fort Hays State Political Science 20 85% $78,818 89 90% 10.9% 45% 70% 0% 5% 10% 0% 970 1060 1140 92%
47 Biola Applied Psychology 14 61% $86,915 89 88% — 0% 36% 21% 7% 21% 0% 1160 1270 1370 29%
48 Vanderbilt Political Science 49 5% $97,529 89 92% — 49% 41% 22% 12% 12% 4% 1510 1540 1560 52%
49 U. of Chicago Global Studies 19 5% $97,593 89 96% — 5% 26% 0% 16% 32% 5% 1500 1530 1560 82%
50 George Washington Political Communication 50 47% $95,015 89 91% — 28% 72% 8% 2% 8% 2% 1310 1380 1450 50%