Back to Rankings

Highest ROI Majors

Top 50 college majors by ROI percentile (net of opportunity cost)

# 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 Pennsylvania Health Care Management & Policy 23 5% $311,453 100 +12.63 100 95% — 48% 4% 52% 13% 4% 17% 1500 1530 1560 70%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Finance 354 5% $310,778 100 +7.30 100 95% — 57% 25% 31% 5% 12% 21% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 U. of Pennsylvania International Studies 45 5% $277,397 100 +10.66 100 94% — 44% 33% 27% 4% 9% 22% 1500 1530 1560 70%
4 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science 280 11% $274,277 100 +4.37 100 94% — 64% 14% 38% 2% 8% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
5 Yale Computer Science 145 3% $262,452 100 +4.02 100 100% — 72% 17% 43% 4% 7% 21% 1480 1520 1560 92%
6 Yale Computer Science & Economics 10 3% $262,452 100 +3.50 100 100% — 90% 30% 30% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
7 U. of Pennsylvania Entrepreneurship & Innovation 14 5% $236,473 100 +7.14 100 95% — 57% 14% 36% 21% 14% 14% 1500 1530 1560 70%
8 Brown Computer Science 243 6% $229,684 99 +3.06 100 97% — 58% 26% 31% 7% 12% 15% 1470 1510 1550 100%
9 Cornell Computer Science 516 8% $228,271 99 +3.02 100 97% — 63% 18% 43% 5% 10% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
10 Caltech Computer Science 88 4% $219,602 98 +2.77 100 97% — 59% 10% 51% 8% 14% 11% 1540 1560 1580 100%
11 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics 54 12% $220,132 100 +2.45 100 98% — 59% 7% 31% 11% 15% 26% 1500 1530 1560 76%
12 Washington University in St Louis Finance 101 12% $219,823 99 +4.17 100 94% — 66% 50% 19% 4% 13% 7% 1500 1530 1550 61%
13 Stanford Computer Science 446 4% $211,945 98 +2.55 100 95% — 65% 15% 46% 7% 11% 11% 1520 1550 1570 77%
14 Harvard Applied Mathematics 137 4% $211,279 100 +3.25 100 95% — 58% 30% 26% 5% 8% 23% 1440 1500 1550 100%
15 Rice Computer Science 197 8% $215,464 98 +2.65 100 94% — 65% 17% 46% 6% 11% 17% 1510 1540 1560 83%
16 Southwestern Oklahoma State Pharmaceutical Sciences 71 100% $186,370 99 +2.31 100 100% — 52% 52% 13% 7% 10% 0% — — — —
17 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science 915 11% $199,871 96 +2.19 100 96% — 71% 10% 50% 0% 5% 23% — — — —
18 Dartmouth Computer Science 136 6% $207,136 97 +2.41 100 95% — 67% 36% 18% 4% 6% 24% 1440 1500 1550 100%
19 Columbia Computer Science 377 5% $205,718 97 +2.36 100 93% — 64% 21% 29% 8% 12% 23% 1510 1540 1560 67%
20 Princeton Computer Science 194 4% $201,879 97 +2.25 100 100% — 58% 20% 35% 9% 10% 16% 1490 1530 1560 80%
21 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 505 11% $195,999 94 +2.08 100 97% — 78% 15% 51% 1% 11% 12% — — — —
22 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%
23 Johns Hopkins Computer Science 146 6% $203,258 97 +2.29 100 97% — 60% 18% 36% 8% 10% 22% 1530 1550 1560 77%
24 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Science 458 37% $191,898 94 +1.96 100 96% — 70% 15% 48% 2% 3% 29% 1390 1460 1520 57%
25 Brown Computer Science & Economics 57 6% $201,560 93 +1.99 100 — — 74% 37% 28% 5% 5% 21% 1470 1510 1550 100%
26 Harvard Computer Science 224 4% $196,298 94 +2.09 100 94% — 66% 17% 42% 5% 8% 20% 1440 1500 1550 100%
27 Duke Computer Science 238 5% $200,817 96 +2.22 100 98% — 61% 27% 29% 5% 13% 15% 1510 1540 1570 75%
28 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering 247 11% $197,233 99 +3.78 100 98% — 58% 19% 30% 5% 9% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
29 UCLA Computer Engineering 87 9% $188,644 99 +3.38 100 100% — 86% 20% 57% 0% 8% 10% — — — —
30 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics 20 3% $197,021 91 +1.87 100 — — 75% 30% 35% 0% 25% 0% 1480 1520 1560 92%
31 Pomona Computer Science 77 7% $193,864 94 +2.02 100 100% — 69% 29% 19% 8% 9% 23% 1490 1520 1550 49%
32 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering 106 5% $198,126 100 +3.83 100 95% — 77% 35% 33% 4% 9% 12% 1510 1540 1570 75%
33 Northwestern Computer Science 137 8% $194,600 94 +2.04 100 93% — 72% 28% 30% 5% 8% 20% 1520 1540 1560 73%
34 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) 323 5% $191,593 93 +1.95 100 93% — 58% 12% 45% 6% 13% 12% 1520 1550 1570 100%
35 Duke Economics 190 5% $196,507 100 +3.70 100 98% — 63% 49% 18% 3% 8% 13% 1510 1540 1570 75%
36 Northwestern Applied Mathematics 19 8% $193,100 96 +2.67 100 96% — 74% 42% 5% 5% 11% 16% 1520 1540 1560 73%
37 MIT Mathematics (Course 18) 97 5% $188,434 100 +3.89 100 94% — 66% 21% 35% 3% 11% 22% 1520 1550 1570 100%
38 Wake Forest Finance 143 18% $190,983 99 +3.17 100 100% — 74% 77% 6% 1% 6% 6% 1420 1460 1490 46%
39 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%
40 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering 88 45% $176,248 99 +2.79 100 94% — 88% 39% 27% 9% 7% 6% 1410 1470 1520 44%
41 Amherst Computer Science 59 8% $187,721 93 +1.84 100 94% — 59% 20% 17% 5% 17% 36% 1470 1510 1540 56%
42 U. of Washington Computer Engineering 28 42% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 82% 36% 29% 4% 11% 14% 1320 1410 1500 24%
43 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering 458 37% $174,097 99 +2.69 100 96% — 85% 18% 43% 1% 3% 31% 1390 1460 1520 57%
44 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Engineering 13 86% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 85% 46% 38% 0% 0% 8% 1030 1200 1360 17%
45 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems 10 83% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 80% 30% 30% 10% 30% 0% 940 1070 1200 17%
46 U. of Chicago Computer Science 174 5% $185,851 92 +1.78 100 100% — 67% 30% 28% 6% 9% 14% 1500 1530 1560 82%
47 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science 160 12% $186,118 93 +1.79 100 94% — 64% 29% 26% 10% 8% 22% 1500 1530 1550 61%
48 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) 85 5% $181,134 90 +1.57 100 — — 59% 20% 39% 11% 7% 16% 1520 1550 1570 100%
49 U. of Notre Dame Finance 307 9% $184,114 98 +2.93 100 99% — 70% 68% 5% 1% 11% 8% 1460 1500 1540 67%
50 Colgate Computer Science 71 18% $183,437 92 +1.71 100 100% — 59% 46% 11% 6% 4% 18% 1450 1480 1510 39%