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Highest ROI Arts Majors

Top 50 Arts college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Georgia Tech Industrial Design $126,068 99 95% 12 13% 1460
2 Carnegie Mellon Design $135,376 99 93% 35 11% 1530
3 Brigham Young Housing and Interior Design $109,487 99 91% 14 69% 1360
4 Stanford Product Design $129,548 99 — 27 4% 1550
5 Brigham Young Animation $88,928 97 83% 25 69% 1360
6 MIT Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science (Course 11-6) $103,036 95 94% 17 5% 1550
7 San Jose State Design and Applied Arts $84,071 94 98% 170 80% 1140
8 San Jose State Industrial Design $84,071 94 98% 23 80% 1140
9 San Jose State Graphic Design $84,071 94 98% 23 80% 1140
10 San Jose State Interior Design $84,071 94 98% 12 80% 1140
11 U. of California, Berkeley Urban Studies $91,917 93 89% 36 11% —
12 Iowa State Architecture $88,106 92 96% 86 85% 1240
13 CUNY Hunter Urban Studies/Affairs $78,992 92 94% 21 28% 1270
14 Cleveland State Music Therapy $82,771 92 94% 10 72% —
15 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Architecture $87,892 91 100% 118 60% 1410
16 U. of Texas at Austin Design $88,431 89 92% 50 22% 1450
17 U. of Texas at Austin Interior Design $88,431 89 92% 17 22% 1450
18 Pennsylvania State Landscape Architecture $85,518 88 100% 27 55% 1350
19 Virginia Tech Architecture $82,291 88 96% 131 55% 1360
20 U. of Central Missouri Drafting Technology $77,012 88 92% 17 64% 1060
21 North Dakota State Architecture $76,248 88 100% 60 92% —
22 U. of Pennsylvania Design $92,787 87 — 22 5% 1540
23 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Art and Design $79,312 87 86% 44 30% 1330
24 Brigham Young Urban Planning $71,198 87 — 10 69% 1360
25 U. of Arizona Urban Planning $83,894 87 98% 65 85% 1290
26 U. of North Texas Art Education $76,205 87 92% 42 81% 1110
27 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Graphic Communication $78,643 87 94% 81 30% 1330
28 Mississippi State Architecture $80,529 87 100% 45 84% 1120
29 Art Center College of Design Entertainment Design $85,772 87 93% 116 76% —
30 Wellesley Media Arts and Sciences $91,004 86 100% 29 15% 1500
31 Rochester Institute of Technology New Media Design $87,272 86 100% 47 71% 1380
32 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Architecture $76,759 86 97% 146 30% 1330
33 Miami University - Ohio Interactive Media and Design $82,609 85 95% 91 74% 1310
34 Auburn Architecture $80,562 85 100% 65 47% 1330
35 Northeastern Graphic Design $89,338 85 96% 65 22% 1480
36 U. of Dayton Music Therapy $84,863 85 98% 10 60% 1290
37 Cal Poly - Pomona Architecture $70,159 85 92% 107 42% —
38 Oklahoma State Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology $76,401 85 100% 37 68% 1150
39 Louisiana State Landscape Architecture $76,748 84 90% 20 71% 1260
40 Belmont Music Therapy $80,879 84 99% 11 94% 1260
41 U. of Washington Visual Communication Design $77,545 83 98% 22 42% 1410
42 U. of Washington Industrial Design $77,545 83 98% 19 42% 1410
43 North Carolina State Architecture $76,519 83 92% 34 40% 1380
44 Cal Poly - Pomona Landscape Architecture $68,243 83 93% 68 42% —
45 Shenandoah Music Therapy $76,159 83 95% 15 74% —
46 U. of Florida Graphic Design $73,206 83 93% 45 20% 1410
47 U. of Florida Interior Design $73,206 83 93% 23 20% 1410
48 U. of Arkansas Architecture $75,902 82 94% 78 75% 1130
49 Washington State Architecture $71,806 82 100% 46 75% —
50 Cornell Apparel and Textiles $88,823 82 100% 26 8% 1520