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Highest ROI Physical Sciences & Math Majors

Top 50 Physical Sciences & Math college majors by ROI percentile

# 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 Harvard Applied Mathematics 137 4% $211,279 100 +3.25 100 95% — 58% 30% 26% 5% 8% 23% 1440 1500 1550 100%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Logic, Information, & Computation 150 5% $203,161 100 +2.99 100 98% — 68% 16% 45% 1% 5% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 Northwestern Applied Mathematics 19 8% $193,100 96 +2.67 100 96% — 74% 42% 5% 5% 11% 16% 1520 1540 1560 73%
4 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) 97 5% $188,434 100 +3.89 100 94% — 66% 21% 35% 3% 11% 22% 1520 1550 1570 100%
5 U. of Pennsylvania Statistics and Data Science 38 5% $186,204 100 +5.37 100 94% — 66% 5% 39% 0% 5% 29% 1500 1530 1560 70%
6 MIT Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) 29 5% $178,458 95 +2.21 100 91% — 69% 21% 45% 14% 10% 7% 1520 1550 1570 100%
7 Yale Statistics & Data Science 62 3% $179,981 96 +2.26 100 — — 60% 32% 34% 5% 13% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
8 MIT Financial Mathematics (Course 18) 20 5% $176,571 94 +2.15 100 — — 35% 40% 30% 5% 10% 0% 1520 1550 1570 100%
9 Carnegie Mellon Statistics 126 11% $177,363 94 +2.17 100 94% — 57% 11% 41% 2% 5% 29% 1500 1530 1560 84%
10 Carnegie Mellon Economics and Statistics 12 11% $177,363 94 +2.17 100 94% — 75% 17% 25% 17% 8% 17% 1500 1530 1560 84%
11 Carnegie Mellon Mathematical Sciences 23 11% $173,270 99 +3.32 100 — — 65% 17% 48% 0% 4% 22% 1500 1530 1560 84%
12 Carnegie Mellon Computational Finance 14 11% $173,171 92 +2.04 100 — — 57% 14% 14% 0% 7% 57% 1500 1530 1560 84%
13 Yale Applied Mathematics 19 3% $173,775 92 +2.06 100 — — 68% 47% 32% 0% 11% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
14 Carnegie Mellon Computational Mathematics 28 11% $171,213 92 +1.98 100 — — 46% 14% 54% 4% 7% 21% 1500 1530 1560 84%
15 U. of Chicago Mathematics 168 5% $169,724 99 +3.18 100 96% — 79% 29% 29% 1% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1560 82%
16 Amherst Mathematics 38 8% $166,587 98 +3.07 100 91% — 58% 42% 13% 8% 16% 8% 1470 1510 1540 56%
17 Yale Mathematics 16 3% $165,087 98 +3.01 100 — — 69% 44% 6% 12% 6% 6% 1480 1520 1560 92%
18 Dartmouth Applied Statistics 30 6% $162,818 92 +1.71 100 — — 43% 37% 23% 3% 13% 17% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 Harvard Mathematics 58 4% $160,470 97 +2.83 100 — — 74% 40% 19% 2% 5% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
20 Yale Mathematics 54 3% $163,605 97 +2.95 100 — — 76% 50% 17% 2% 15% 11% 1480 1520 1560 92%
21 Caltech Applied and Computational Mathematics 13 4% $160,500 91 +1.64 100 — — 62% 15% 31% 0% 38% 0% 1540 1560 1580 100%
22 Harvard Statistics 63 4% $159,261 91 +1.60 100 100% — 62% 21% 48% 3% 10% 13% 1440 1500 1550 100%
23 New York University Applied Mathematics 55 9% $160,550 91 +1.64 100 93% — 78% 2% 16% 2% 7% 69% 1480 1520 1550 37%
24 Carnegie Mellon Mathematics and Statistics 23 11% $161,060 91 +1.66 100 100% — 48% 35% 43% 0% 4% 9% 1500 1530 1560 84%
25 Bowdoin Mathematics 23 7% $161,323 97 +2.87 100 95% — 65% 70% 4% 4% 4% 4% 1470 1510 1540 52%
26 U. of Pennsylvania Mathematics 33 5% $158,770 96 +2.77 100 — — 67% 52% 12% 6% 12% 12% 1500 1530 1560 70%
27 Northwestern Chemistry 20 8% $160,734 100 +8.61 100 95% — 45% 30% 35% 0% 0% 20% 1520 1540 1560 73%
28 Caltech Mathematics 18 4% $155,963 96 +2.66 100 — — 94% 33% 11% 0% 22% 11% 1540 1560 1580 100%
29 Brown Applied Mathematics 182 6% $159,153 91 +1.60 100 93% — 70% 34% 30% 3% 8% 14% 1470 1510 1550 100%
30 Brown Computational Mathematics 13 6% $159,153 91 +1.60 100 93% — 69% 46% 23% 0% 0% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
31 Columbia Mathematics-Statistics 26 5% $153,792 89 +1.43 100 90% — 73% 23% 19% 0% 12% 27% 1510 1540 1560 67%
32 U. of Notre Dame Mathematics and Statistics 26 9% $154,096 89 +1.44 100 98% — 31% 65% 8% 0% 8% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
33 Tufts Mathematics 25 11% $150,844 96 +2.47 100 100% — 48% 48% 4% 0% 8% 24% 1460 1490 1520 58%
34 Stevens Institute of Technology Quantitative Finance 54 51% $147,908 88 +1.24 100 98% — 76% 63% 19% 2% 9% 0% 1370 1420 1470 40%
35 Dartmouth Mathematics 41 6% $148,701 95 +2.39 99 96% — 73% 34% 24% 0% 5% 34% 1440 1500 1550 100%
36 Cornell Mathematics 68 8% $148,874 96 +2.40 99 86% — 74% 26% 35% 4% 6% 21% 1490 1520 1550 56%
37 Brigham Young Statistics 62 68% $123,471 79 +0.47 99 96% — 69% 81% 3% 0% 5% 5% 1290 1360 1430 54%
38 Brigham Young Mathematics-Statistics 15 68% $123,471 79 +0.47 99 96% — 47% 80% 0% 0% 7% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
39 Johns Hopkins Mathematics 43 6% $145,958 95 +2.29 99 100% — 58% 12% 35% 0% 12% 35% 1530 1550 1560 77%
40 Stanford Mathematics 82 4% $143,613 94 +2.20 99 — — 76% 28% 38% 1% 10% 16% 1520 1550 1570 77%
41 Vanderbilt Mathematics 45 5% $147,044 95 +2.33 99 94% — 73% 27% 18% 4% 16% 24% 1510 1540 1560 52%
42 U. of California, Berkeley Statistics 78 11% $136,907 87 +0.89 99 91% — 50% 9% 45% 0% 8% 36% — — — —
43 U. of Chicago Statistics 29 5% $146,197 88 +1.19 99 91% — 62% 21% 38% 7% 7% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
44 Williams Mathematics 36 9% $145,532 94 +2.27 99 91% — 69% 50% 14% 0% 6% 14% 1490 1520 1550 61%
45 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Statistics 189 37% $132,761 86 +0.76 99 97% — 60% 24% 32% 1% 4% 37% 1390 1460 1520 57%
46 Brigham Young Computational and Applied Mathematics 48 68% $118,952 76 +0.32 99 — — 79% 83% 2% 0% 8% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
47 Washington University in St Louis Statistics 14 12% $143,286 88 +1.09 99 — — 64% 57% 29% 0% 7% 7% 1500 1530 1550 61%
48 Swarthmore Mathematics 43 8% $141,771 94 +2.13 99 100% — 49% 49% 14% 2% 2% 28% 1480 1520 1550 55%
49 U. of Iowa Statistics 16 80% $127,160 84 +0.58 99 100% — 62% 62% 6% 0% 12% 12% 1130 1230 1320 82%
50 Princeton Mathematics 22 4% $135,152 93 +1.88 99 — — 68% 36% 9% 5% 9% 27% 1490 1530 1560 80%