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Highest Paying Physical Sciences & Math Majors

Top 50 Physical Sciences & Math college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania Logic, Information, & Computation $294,852 100 100% 150 5% 1540
2 Harvard Statistics $215,398 100 94% 63 4% 1500
3 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) $212,007 100 97% 97 5% 1550
4 U. of Pennsylvania Statistics and Data Science $185,983 100 94% 38 5% 1540
5 MIT Financial Mathematics (Course 18) $181,704 100 — 20 5% 1550
6 MIT Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) $172,247 100 82% 29 5% 1550
7 Harvard Applied Mathematics $167,135 100 96% 137 4% 1500
8 Dartmouth Applied Statistics $163,841 100 — 30 6% 1500
9 Bowdoin Mathematics $161,321 100 95% 23 7% 1510
10 Northwestern Chemistry $160,737 100 95% 20 7% 1540
11 New York University Applied Mathematics $160,551 100 93% 55 9% 1520
12 Harvard Mathematics $159,326 100 — 58 4% 1500
13 Dartmouth Mathematics $157,341 100 100% 41 6% 1500
14 Caltech Applied and Computational Mathematics $155,974 100 — 13 4% 1560
15 Cornell Mathematics $155,858 100 94% 68 8% 1520
16 Carnegie Mellon Statistics $155,801 100 96% 126 11% 1530
17 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Statistics $155,801 100 96% 12 11% 1530
18 Yale Statistics & Data Science $154,877 100 — 62 3% 1520
19 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematics $154,798 100 — 33 5% 1540
20 Yale Applied Mathematics $154,610 100 — 19 3% 1520
21 Columbia Mathematics-Statistics $153,793 100 90% 26 4% 1540
22 Carnegie Mellon Computational Finance $150,947 100 — 14 11% 1530
23 Tufts Mathematics $150,192 100 95% 25 11% 1490
24 Carnegie Mellon Computational Mathematics $149,750 100 — 28 11% 1530
25 Vanderbilt Mathematics $147,956 100 90% 45 5% 1540
26 U. of Chicago Statistics $146,200 100 91% 29 5% 1540
27 Cornell Biometry and Statistics $145,805 100 100% 32 8% 1520
28 U. of Chicago Mathematics $145,329 100 93% 168 5% 1540
29 Northwestern Applied Mathematics $144,423 100 100% 19 7% 1540
30 Carnegie Mellon Mathematics and Statistics $143,541 100 100% 23 11% 1530
31 Yale Mathematics $142,322 100 — 54 3% 1520
32 Yale Mathematics $142,303 100 — 16 3% 1520
33 Stanford Mathematics $141,974 100 — 82 4% 1550
34 Princeton Mathematics $141,685 100 — 22 4% 1530
35 Swarthmore Mathematics $141,602 100 100% 43 8% 1520
36 Caltech Mathematics $140,037 100 — 18 4% 1560
37 Stevens Institute of Technology Quantitative Finance $138,372 100 100% 54 51% 1420
38 Carnegie Mellon Mathematical Sciences $136,262 99 — 23 11% 1530
39 U. of Notre Dame Mathematics and Statistics $135,142 99 95% 26 9% 1500
40 Georgetown Mathematics $134,819 99 94% 44 14% 1470
41 Duke Mathematics $134,343 99 93% 39 5% 1540
42 Johns Hopkins Mathematics $132,969 99 96% 43 6% 1550
43 Brown Mathematics $131,904 99 — 14 6% 1510
44 Brown Computational Mathematics $131,779 99 92% 13 6% 1510
45 Brown Applied Mathematics $131,779 99 92% 182 6% 1510
46 U. of Virginia Mathematics $131,015 99 87% 53 13% 1470
47 Rice Computational and Applied Mathematics $130,783 99 — 17 8% 1540
48 Rice Statistics $130,408 99 — 39 8% 1540
49 U. of California, Berkeley Statistics $127,428 99 89% 78 11% —
50 U. of Iowa Statistics $127,167 99 100% 16 80% 1230