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Highest Paying Life & Natural Sciences Majors

Top 50 Life & Natural Sciences college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of California, San Diego Bioinformatics $123,023 99 100% 110 29% —
2 Brigham Young Bioinformatics $108,379 99 94% 34 69% 1360
3 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology $104,177 98 98% 191 72% 1150
4 U. of Notre Dame Biochemistry $94,876 87 87% 23 9% 1500
5 U. of Pennsylvania Neuroscience $93,785 88 100% 102 5% 1540
6 U. of the Pacific Biology $93,189 91 97% 154 79% 1350
7 College of St. Scholastica Biology $92,613 93 91% 35 74% 1200
8 U. of Iowa Biochemistry $92,381 93 90% 55 80% 1230
9 Ohio Dominican Biology $92,311 93 92% 11 54% —
10 Loyola University Maryland Biology $91,764 89 93% 38 83% 1290
11 Northeastern Biochemistry $91,490 87 85% 118 22% 1480
12 Northeastern Biology $91,261 86 93% 170 22% 1480
13 Middlebury Neuroscience $90,022 84 95% 52 13% 1500
14 U. of La Verne Biology $89,440 90 94% 50 72% —
15 Duke Anatomy $89,074 80 93% 19 5% 1540
16 Northeastern Cellular and Molecular Biology $88,934 85 96% 87 22% 1480
17 U. of California, Berkeley Microbial Biology $88,774 91 100% 73 11% —
18 Harvard Integrative Biology $88,135 85 95% 27 4% 1500
19 North Carolina State Biochemistry $88,073 92 100% 71 40% 1380
20 U. of Notre Dame Biological and Physical Sciences $87,976 81 90% 64 9% 1500
21 Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Biology $87,876 89 100% 16 98% —
22 Yale Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology $87,734 81 90% 85 3% 1520
23 Towson Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology $86,442 92 93% 19 88% 1090
24 George Mason Neuroscience $86,002 90 87% 66 72% 1260
25 Providence Biology $85,875 82 96% 73 50% 1320
26 Springfield Biomedical Sciences $85,453 88 100% 12 77% —
27 Yale Ecology and Evolutionary Biology $85,288 78 94% 26 3% 1520
28 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology $85,118 87 89% 84 46% —
29 Lehigh Neuroscience $84,575 79 87% 31 29% 1430
30 Syracuse Biotechnology $84,321 81 100% 20 35% 1360
31 Auburn Biology $84,290 88 96% 29 47% 1330
32 Auburn Biomedical Sciences $84,290 88 96% 357 47% 1330
33 Endicott Biotechnology $84,092 89 100% 19 62% 1270
34 Muhlenberg Biology $83,795 80 90% 26 35% 1330
35 Worcester State Biotechnology $83,379 94 96% 16 72% —
36 Harvard Chemical and Physical Biology $83,236 80 — 10 4% 1500
37 Grinnell Biochemistry $83,067 74 91% 39 14% 1480
38 U. of Connecticut Molecular and Cell Biology $82,860 87 93% 172 54% 1330
39 Union College Biology $82,825 78 92% 38 43% 1400
40 Fairfield Biology $82,813 82 93% 40 21% 1330
41 Miami University - Ohio Biochemistry $82,494 85 100% 46 74% 1310
42 Lafayette Neuroscience $82,489 77 90% 40 31% 1430
43 U. of Houston Biotechnology $82,316 91 85% 68 76% 1230
44 U. of California, Davis Microbiology $82,228 84 94% 109 46% —
45 U. of North Dakota Biology $82,155 91 100% 79 82% —
46 Muhlenberg Neuroscience $82,051 78 90% 12 35% 1330
47 Furman Biology $81,909 78 100% 42 43% 1350
48 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry $81,873 84 80% 32 38% —
49 U. of California, Santa Barbara Biochemistry-Molecular Biology $81,873 84 80% 46 38% —
50 Harvard Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology $81,758 79 75% 50 4% 1500