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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 Degrees Accept Earnings Earn % Earn z ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 U. of Rhode Island Biotechnology 40 75% $118,439 100 +4.18 99 — — 32% 55% 8% 10% 12% 0% 1090 1200 1310 24%
2 UCLA Computational and Systems Biology 112 9% $116,858 100 +4.04 98 — — 40% 22% 59% 1% 4% 4% — — — —
3 U. of California, Santa Cruz Bioinformatics 61 73% $115,578 100 +3.92 98 — — 43% 28% 44% 2% 15% 3% — — — —
4 U. of Delaware Biotechnology 10 71% $113,813 100 +3.77 98 — — 30% 60% 30% 0% 10% 0% 1190 1280 1370 22%
5 U. of California, San Diego Bioinformatics 110 29% $112,874 100 +3.68 97 100% — 50% 15% 49% 1% 4% 16% — — — —
6 Brigham Young Bioinformatics 34 68% $108,378 100 +3.28 99 94% — 59% 91% 0% 0% 0% 3% 1290 1360 1430 54%
7 U. of the Pacific Biology 154 69% $105,741 100 +4.56 94 94% — 45% 5% 69% 1% 8% 6% 1220 1340 1450 19%
8 High Point Biology 36 60% $104,192 100 +4.38 94 94% — 25% 86% 6% 0% 8% 0% 1110 1220 1320 28%
9 U. of Pittsburgh Computational Biology 50 59% $103,405 100 +2.84 95 — — 30% 34% 54% 2% 2% 6% 1280 1370 1460 50%
10 Syracuse Biotechnology 20 49% $103,337 100 +2.84 91 100% — 15% 40% 30% 15% 10% 0% 1300 1360 1410 31%
11 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology 191 72% $102,114 100 +4.14 95 97% — 25% 63% 15% 7% 3% 5% 1030 1150 1260 57%
12 Marquette Biomedical Sciences 148 78% $99,730 100 +2.72 91 99% — 28% 68% 14% 4% 7% 0% 1200 1280 1360 40%
13 Marquette Biology 47 78% $99,730 99 +3.86 91 99% — 36% 40% 15% 11% 30% 0% 1200 1280 1360 40%
14 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology 84 46% $99,258 23 -0.64 92 90% — 38% 20% 46% 0% 17% 7% — — — —
15 Virginia Commonwealth Bioinformatics 31 93% $98,545 100 +2.41 93 — — 26% 10% 61% 3% 10% 6% 1010 1140 1270 37%
16 Springfield Biomedical Sciences 12 74% $98,246 99 +2.58 93 97% — 50% 83% 0% 0% 8% 8% — — — —
17 Union College Biology 38 43% $96,046 99 +3.43 86 100% — 26% 68% 16% 0% 5% 5% 1320 1400 1470 41%
18 U. of Chicago Molecular Engineering 45 5% $95,030 99 +2.10 82 — — 56% 47% 13% 9% 7% 9% 1500 1530 1560 82%
19 U. of Notre Dame Biochemistry 23 9% $94,867 99 +2.08 82 87% — 61% 57% 13% 4% 4% 4% 1460 1500 1540 67%
20 Trinity Biology 22 25% $94,771 99 +3.29 86 95% — 36% 50% 5% 14% 27% 0% 1330 1400 1460 53%
21 U. of Notre Dame Biological and Physical Sciences 64 9% $93,750 99 +3.17 81 100% — 55% 70% 8% 3% 11% 0% 1460 1500 1540 67%
22 Brown Human Biology 60 6% $93,710 98 +2.18 81 96% — 30% 30% 20% 25% 10% 2% 1470 1510 1550 100%
23 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice Cellular and Molecular Biology 14 57% $93,430 99 +1.95 96 92% — 21% 36% 0% 7% 50% 0% — — — —
24 Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience 33 11% $93,290 100 +2.31 83 — — 18% 36% 36% 3% 6% 3% 1500 1530 1560 84%
25 Boston College Biology 229 14% $92,513 99 +3.02 80 91% — 38% 61% 14% 3% 8% 6% 1440 1490 1540 45%
26 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Biotechnology 37 68% $92,181 99 +1.84 92 97% — 49% 38% 38% 0% 14% 5% 1310 1410 1500 55%
27 Carlow Biology 29 92% $91,946 99 +2.96 91 95% — 21% 69% 10% 7% 0% 0% 960 1060 1160 29%
28 Le Moyne Biology 70 73% $91,918 99 +2.96 90 97% — 30% 89% 4% 4% 1% 0% 1160 1250 1330 18%
29 U. of Pennsylvania Biology 158 5% $91,918 99 +2.96 82 98% — 39% 27% 42% 9% 11% 4% 1500 1530 1560 70%
30 Stockton Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 15 85% $91,869 99 +1.81 94 96% — 40% 47% 40% 13% 0% 0% 1030 1130 1230 26%
31 Misericordia Biology 12 89% $91,457 99 +2.90 89 100% — 17% 92% 0% 0% 8% 0% — — — —
32 U. of New Hampshire Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 30 78% $90,920 99 +1.73 90 91% — 47% 77% 0% 3% 7% 3% 1090 1210 1330 25%
33 Northeastern Biology 170 17% $90,712 99 +2.82 81 94% — 25% 48% 24% 6% 10% 4% 1440 1480 1510 28%
34 College of the Holy Cross Biology 73 17% $90,373 98 +2.78 81 93% — 36% 70% 11% 7% 5% 3% 1240 1330 1410 45%
35 Purdue Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 10 43% $90,029 99 +1.65 90 96% — 60% 90% 0% 0% 10% 0% 1220 1350 1470 100%
36 Purdue Biochemistry 55 43% $90,029 99 +1.65 90 96% — 33% 69% 9% 5% 5% 5% 1220 1350 1470 100%
37 Middlebury Neuroscience 52 13% $90,022 99 +2.02 78 95% — 31% 62% 8% 13% 4% 10% 1460 1500 1530 49%
38 Santa Clara Biology 59 48% $89,694 98 +2.70 82 92% — 37% 27% 25% 10% 25% 5% 1330 1400 1470 38%
39 Loyola University Maryland Biology 38 70% $89,590 98 +2.69 83 100% — 24% 53% 8% 13% 18% 0% 1250 1310 1370 15%
40 Bucknell Neuroscience 12 32% $89,527 99 +1.98 77 94% — 42% 83% 17% 0% 0% 0% 1170 1270 1360 86%
41 U. of California, Santa Cruz Biotechnology 19 73% $89,145 98 +1.57 86 — — 58% 32% 42% 5% 21% 0% — — — —
42 Colby Neuroscience 37 8% $89,122 99 +1.94 76 — — 32% 59% 14% 5% 5% 8% 1460 1510 1550 52%
43 Northeastern Cellular and Molecular Biology 87 17% $88,935 98 +1.55 79 96% — 25% 38% 26% 8% 13% 5% 1440 1480 1510 28%
44 U. of New Hampshire Genetics 15 78% $88,796 97 +1.54 88 97% — 40% 93% 7% 0% 0% 0% 1090 1210 1330 25%
45 Duke Biology 156 5% $88,785 98 +2.59 74 90% — 33% 28% 27% 9% 23% 4% 1510 1540 1570 75%
46 U. of California, Berkeley Microbial Biology 73 11% $88,774 99 +2.48 86 100% — 34% 29% 32% 5% 16% 11% — — — —
47 Northeastern Biochemistry 118 17% $88,748 97 +1.54 79 94% — 33% 45% 24% 6% 13% 4% 1440 1480 1510 28%
48 Harvard Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology 50 4% $88,656 98 +1.72 81 91% — 36% 20% 38% 10% 22% 4% 1440 1500 1550 100%
49 Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology 46 4% $88,656 97 +1.53 81 91% — 26% 28% 37% 9% 11% 11% 1440 1500 1550 100%
50 U. of Wisconsin - La Crosse Microbiology 15 74% $88,649 97 +2.47 92 97% — 40% 73% 7% 0% 13% 0% 1100 1210 1310 34%