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Highest Paying Computer Science Majors
Top 50 Computer Science college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings
| # | College | Major | Earnings | ROI | Employ | Degrees | Accept | SAT | |
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| 1 | Brown | Computer Science | $265,622 | 100 | 93% | 243 | 6% | 1510 |
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| 2 | Yale | Computer Science | $262,438 | 100 | 100% | 145 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 3 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science | $253,580 | 100 | 96% | 280 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 4 | U. of Chicago | Computer Science | $224,666 | 100 | 92% | 174 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 5 | Stanford | Computer Science | $221,819 | 100 | 98% | 446 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 6 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science & Mathematics | $220,132 | 100 | 98% | 54 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 7 | Brown | Computer Science and Economics | $220,082 | 100 | — | 57 | 6% | 1510 |
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| 8 | Rice | Computer Science | $215,952 | 100 | 91% | 197 | 8% | 1540 |
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| 9 | U. of California, Berkeley | Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | $210,366 | 100 | 97% | 505 | 11% | — |
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| 10 | Cornell | Computer Science | $209,884 | 100 | 96% | 516 | 8% | 1520 |
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| 11 | Duke | Computer Science | $207,237 | 100 | 99% | 238 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 12 | MIT | Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) | $206,801 | 100 | 94% | 323 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 13 | Harvard | Computer Science | $206,318 | 100 | 97% | 224 | 4% | 1500 |
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| 14 | Yale | Computing and the Arts | $205,072 | 100 | — | 17 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 15 | Princeton | Computer Science | $201,352 | 100 | 100% | 194 | 4% | 1530 |
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| 16 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science | $200,694 | 100 | 93% | 54 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 17 | U. of California, Berkeley | Computer Science | $196,962 | 100 | 98% | 915 | 11% | — |
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| 18 | Yale | Computer Science & Mathematics | $195,418 | 100 | — | 20 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 19 | Pomona | Computer Science | $193,864 | 100 | 100% | 77 | 7% | 1520 |
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| 20 | MIT | Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) | $193,751 | 100 | — | 85 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 21 | Duke | Mathematics and Computer Science | $190,434 | 100 | — | 10 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 22 | Columbia | Computer Science | $189,073 | 100 | 95% | 377 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 23 | Amherst | Computer Science | $187,720 | 100 | 94% | 59 | 8% | 1510 |
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| 24 | Carnegie Mellon | Information Technology | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 12 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 25 | Carnegie Mellon | Artificial Intelligence | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 38 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 26 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science and Arts | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 14 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 27 | Dartmouth | Computer Science | $183,665 | 100 | 98% | 136 | 6% | 1500 |
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| 28 | Washington University in St Louis | Computer Science | $183,662 | 100 | 100% | 160 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 29 | Bowdoin | Computer Science | $179,741 | 100 | 95% | 42 | 7% | 1510 |
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| 30 | Columbia | Information Science/Studies | $178,806 | 100 | — | 23 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 31 | Johns Hopkins | Computer Science | $175,650 | 100 | 97% | 146 | 6% | 1550 |
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| 32 | Caltech | Computer Science | $173,460 | 100 | 100% | 88 | 4% | 1560 |
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| 33 | Columbia | Mathematics and Computer Science | $171,832 | 100 | — | 25 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 34 | U. of Pennsylvania | Computer Science | $169,349 | 100 | 95% | 89 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 35 | Emory | Computer Science | $167,566 | 100 | 94% | 91 | 10% | 1510 |
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| 36 | Vanderbilt | Computer Science | $165,652 | 100 | 98% | 170 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 37 | U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Computer Science | $165,505 | 100 | 99% | 458 | 37% | 1460 |
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| 38 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Information Technology and Web Science | $165,297 | 100 | 100% | 26 | 63% | 1440 |
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| 39 | Oberlin | Computer Science | $165,218 | 100 | 88% | 43 | 34% | 1430 |
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| 40 | Wellesley | Computer Science | $163,202 | 100 | 97% | 55 | 15% | 1500 |
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| 41 | U. of Southern California | Computer Science | $159,694 | 100 | 93% | 378 | 11% | 1510 |
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| 42 | Northwestern | Data Science and Society | $158,713 | 100 | 98% | 123 | 7% | 1540 |
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| 43 | Tufts | Computer Science | $158,444 | 100 | 95% | 222 | 11% | 1490 |
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| 44 | MIT | Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) | $158,174 | 100 | — | 28 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 45 | Washington University in St Louis | Mathematics and Computer Science | $158,092 | 100 | — | 51 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 46 | Williams | Computer Science | $157,832 | 100 | 96% | 62 | 9% | 1520 |
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| 47 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | Computer Science | $157,798 | 100 | 100% | 111 | 81% | 1360 |
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| 48 | Colgate | Computer Science | $157,491 | 100 | 100% | 71 | 18% | 1480 |
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| 49 | U. of Virginia | Computer Science | $157,470 | 100 | 96% | 591 | 13% | 1470 |
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| 50 | New York University | Information Technology Project Management | $156,860 | 100 | 93% | 38 | 9% | 1520 |
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