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Highest ROI Computer Science Majors

Top 50 Computer Science college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Brown Computer Science $265,622 100 93% 243 6% 1510
2 Yale Computer Science $262,438 100 100% 145 3% 1520
3 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science $253,580 100 96% 280 11% 1530
4 Stanford Computer Science $221,819 100 98% 446 4% 1550
5 U. of Chicago Computer Science $224,666 100 92% 174 5% 1540
6 Harvey Mudd Computer Science & Mathematics $220,132 100 98% 54 12% 1530
7 U. of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences $210,366 100 97% 505 11%
8 Brown Computer Science and Economics $220,082 100 57 6% 1510
9 Rice Computer Science $215,952 100 91% 197 8% 1540
10 MIT Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) $206,801 100 94% 323 5% 1550
11 Harvard Computer Science $206,318 100 97% 224 4% 1500
12 Cornell Computer Science $209,884 100 96% 516 8% 1520
13 U. of California, Berkeley Computer Science $196,962 100 98% 915 11%
14 Yale Computing and the Arts $205,072 100 17 3% 1520
15 Duke Computer Science $207,237 100 99% 238 5% 1540
16 Princeton Computer Science $201,352 100 100% 194 4% 1530
17 Harvey Mudd Computer Science $200,694 100 93% 54 12% 1530
18 MIT Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) $193,751 100 85 5% 1550
19 Pomona Computer Science $193,864 100 100% 77 7% 1520
20 Yale Computer Science & Mathematics $195,418 100 20 3% 1520
21 Columbia Computer Science $189,073 100 95% 377 4% 1540
22 Amherst Computer Science $187,720 100 94% 59 8% 1510
23 Duke Mathematics and Computer Science $190,434 100 10 5% 1540
24 Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence $185,110 100 98% 38 11% 1530
25 Carnegie Mellon Computer Science and Arts $185,110 100 98% 14 11% 1530
26 Carnegie Mellon Information Technology $185,110 100 98% 12 11% 1530
27 Dartmouth Computer Science $183,665 100 98% 136 6% 1500
28 Washington University in St Louis Computer Science $183,662 100 100% 160 12% 1530
29 Bowdoin Computer Science $179,741 100 95% 42 7% 1510
30 Columbia Information Science/Studies $178,806 100 23 4% 1540
31 Caltech Computer Science $173,460 100 100% 88 4% 1560
32 Johns Hopkins Computer Science $175,650 100 97% 146 6% 1550
33 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Science $165,505 100 99% 458 37% 1460
34 Brigham Young Software Engineering $149,461 100 97% 41 69% 1360
35 Columbia Mathematics and Computer Science $171,832 100 25 4% 1540
36 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Science $169,349 100 95% 89 5% 1540
37 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information Technology and Web Science $165,297 100 100% 26 63% 1440
38 Emory Computer Science $167,566 100 94% 91 10% 1510
39 Purdue Computer Science $153,090 100 89% 730 43% 1350
40 Georgia Tech Computer Science $152,626 100 96% 1,401 13% 1460
41 Georgia Tech Computational Media $152,626 100 96% 69 13% 1460
42 Wellesley Computer Science $163,202 100 97% 55 15% 1500
43 Vanderbilt Computer Science $165,652 100 98% 170 5% 1540
44 San Jose State Computer Science $143,865 100 93% 200 80% 1140
45 Oberlin Computer Science $165,218 100 88% 43 34% 1430
46 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mathematics & Computer Science $153,926 100 100% 101 37% 1460
47 MIT Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) $158,174 100 28 5% 1550
48 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Computer Science $157,798 100 100% 111 81% 1360
49 U. of Oklahoma - Norman Computer Science $146,506 100 95% 138 72% 1240
50 U. of Southern California Computer Science $159,694 100 93% 378 11% 1510