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Highest Paying Humanities & Social Sciences Majors

Top 50 Humanities & Social Sciences college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania International Studies $277,260 100 94% 45 5% 1540
2 Amherst History $153,409 100 95% 25 8% 1510
3 Stanford Communication $152,368 100 92% 22 4% 1550
4 Yale Special Divisional Major $126,382 99 100% 117 3% 1520
5 Tufts Cognitive Science $120,704 98 100% 47 11% 1490
6 Yale Political Science $119,348 98 91% 119 3% 1520
7 Middlebury International Studies $117,243 98 82% 45 13% 1500
8 Duke Public Policy Studies $116,508 97 95% 151 5% 1540
9 Stanford Symbolic Systems $115,491 98 96% 113 4% 1550
10 Stanford International Relations $115,196 98 92% 79 4% 1550
11 MIT Computation and Cognition (Course 6-9) $115,069 98 — 55 5% 1550
12 Georgetown Liberal Studies $114,459 97 96% 33 14% 1470
13 U. of Pennsylvania Political Science $110,430 97 89% 98 5% 1540
14 U. of Pennsylvania Legal Studies & Business Ethics $110,020 96 — 10 5% 1540
15 Harvard Government $109,910 97 94% 141 4% 1500
16 U. of Virginia Public Policy $109,477 96 95% 120 13% 1470
17 Boston University Interdisciplinary Studies $109,458 96 88% 17 13% 1470
18 U. of Pennsylvania Cognitive Science $108,539 96 90% 95 5% 1540
19 Yale Humanities $107,780 95 99% 24 3% 1520
20 Yale Cognitive Science $107,334 95 — 66 3% 1520
21 Duke Political Science $104,260 92 97% 81 5% 1540
22 Johns Hopkins Political Science $104,234 94 90% 23 6% 1550
23 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy $104,170 94 95% 16 5% 1540
24 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics $104,170 94 95% 183 5% 1540
25 Yale History $103,890 93 87% 121 3% 1520
26 Yale Global Affairs $102,512 92 — 76 3% 1520
27 Cornell Public Policy $102,419 92 97% 42 8% 1520
28 Carnegie Mellon International Relations and Politics $102,294 93 — 16 11% 1530
29 Brown International and Public Affairs $101,154 91 94% 110 6% 1510
30 Columbia Cognitive Science $101,012 92 — 33 4% 1540
31 Connecticut Government $100,940 92 100% 22 39% 1270
32 Stanford Classics $100,781 93 — 10 4% 1550
33 National Public Administration $99,394 98 100% 17 100% —
34 U. of Chicago Public Policy Studies $99,298 90 94% 66 5% 1540
35 U. of California, Berkeley Social Sciences $99,114 96 92% 223 11% —
36 Stanford History $98,808 92 — 22 4% 1550
37 U. of Chicago Global Studies $97,593 89 96% 19 5% 1540
38 Vanderbilt Political Science $97,529 89 92% 49 5% 1540
39 Muhlenberg Political Science $97,228 91 100% 12 35% 1330
40 Dartmouth Government $96,289 89 93% 126 6% 1500
41 Pomona Cognitive Science $96,158 91 — 11 7% 1520
42 Brigham Young International Affairs $95,685 98 93% 26 69% 1360
43 Harvard Psychology $95,666 90 89% 101 4% 1500
44 Tulane International Development $95,648 87 95% 21 14% 1470
45 Vanderbilt Social Sciences $95,283 87 95% 283 5% 1540
46 Colgate Political Science $95,138 88 97% 81 18% 1480
47 George Washington Political Communication $95,015 89 91% 50 47% 1380
48 Washington University in St Louis Political Science $94,257 86 100% 79 12% 1530
49 Colby Political Science $94,019 86 100% 50 8% 1510
50 U. of Chicago Liberal Arts $93,890 86 98% 20 5% 1540