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Highest Paying Business & Economics Majors

Top 50 Business & Economics college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania Health Care Management & Policy $311,458 100 95% 23 5% 1540
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance $310,624 100 95% 354 5% 1540
3 Yale Computer Science and Economics $262,438 100 100% 10 3% 1520
4 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation $236,323 100 95% 14 5% 1540
5 Washington University in St Louis Finance $203,101 100 100% 101 12% 1530
6 Washington University in St Louis Entrepreneurship $178,729 100 — 11 12% 1530
7 Washington University in St Louis Healthcare Management $176,922 100 — 11 12% 1530
8 Duke Economics $176,442 100 95% 190 5% 1540
9 Washington University in St Louis Leadership and Strategic Management $175,622 100 — 17 12% 1530
10 Washington University in St Louis Economics and Strategy $169,356 100 100% 31 12% 1530
11 Baylor Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations $161,753 100 100% 36 52% 1280
12 Carnegie Mellon Business Administration $160,531 100 94% 191 11% 1530
13 Rice Business $160,317 100 — 89 8% 1540
14 Georgetown Accounting $157,368 100 93% 11 14% 1470
15 U. of Chicago Economics $155,845 100 96% 653 5% 1540
16 Washington University in St Louis Data Science and Analytics $154,056 100 — 29 12% 1530
17 Middlebury Economics $151,586 100 96% 128 13% 1500
18 Harvard Economics $150,856 100 97% 278 4% 1500
19 Wake Forest Business Analytics $150,550 100 100% 17 18% 1460
20 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematical Economics $150,134 100 95% 155 5% 1540
21 U. of Pennsylvania Business Economics & Public Policy $149,746 100 — 14 5% 1540
22 Princeton Quantitative Economics $148,504 100 98% 122 4% 1530
23 U. of Pennsylvania Artificial Intelligence for Business $148,471 100 96% 72 5% 1540
24 U. of Pennsylvania Operations, Information & Decisions $148,471 100 96% 27 5% 1540
25 George Washington Business Administration $147,380 100 92% 105 47% 1380
26 Wake Forest Finance $146,733 100 95% 143 18% 1460
27 Dartmouth Quantitative Economics $145,995 100 95% 128 6% 1500
28 Georgetown Finance $145,611 100 91% 223 14% 1470
29 Washington & Lee Economics $145,404 100 96% 33 14% 1480
30 Williams Economics $145,273 100 92% 97 9% 1520
31 Colby Economics $145,170 100 94% 108 8% 1510
32 U. of Notre Dame Finance $144,945 100 94% 307 9% 1500
33 Amherst Economics $144,588 100 91% 81 8% 1510
34 Washington University in St Louis Accounting $143,560 100 — 10 12% 1530
35 New York University Management Science $142,735 100 100% 678 9% 1520
36 Johns Hopkins Economics $139,531 99 92% 64 6% 1550
37 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Business Administration $138,596 99 94% 635 16% 1460
38 Brigham Young Business Economics $138,440 100 96% 66 69% 1360
39 Claremont McKenna Economics $138,300 99 88% 110 9% 1510
40 Vanderbilt Economics $135,682 99 96% 203 5% 1540
41 MIT Management Science (Course 15) $135,388 99 95% 16 5% 1550
42 MIT Business Analytics (Course 15-2) $135,388 99 95% 11 5% 1550
43 Swarthmore Economics $134,143 99 100% 57 8% 1520
44 Lehigh Finance $133,413 99 95% 157 29% 1430
45 U. of Virginia Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods $133,388 99 100% 398 13% 1470
46 Stanford Economics $133,104 99 91% 112 4% 1550
47 Georgetown Health Care Management and Policy $133,091 99 100% 29 14% 1470
48 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Mathematical Sciences $132,550 99 94% 49 11% 1530
49 Villanova Finance $131,999 99 97% 208 28% 1460
50 U. of Texas at Dallas Business Administration $131,780 100 94% 229 72% 1290