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Highest ROI Humanities & Social Sciences Majors

Top 50 Humanities & Social Sciences college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Pennsylvania International Studies $277,260 100 94% 45 5% 1540
2 Stanford Communication $152,368 100 92% 22 4% 1550
3 Amherst History $153,409 100 95% 25 8% 1510
4 Yale Special Divisional Major $126,382 99 100% 117 3% 1520
5 National Public Administration $99,394 98 100% 17 100% —
6 Tufts Cognitive Science $120,704 98 100% 47 11% 1490
7 MIT Computation and Cognition (Course 6-9) $115,069 98 — 55 5% 1550
8 Brigham Young International Affairs $95,685 98 93% 26 69% 1360
9 Yale Political Science $119,348 98 91% 119 3% 1520
10 Stanford Symbolic Systems $115,491 98 96% 113 4% 1550
11 Stanford International Relations $115,196 98 92% 79 4% 1550
12 Middlebury International Studies $117,243 98 82% 45 13% 1500
13 Georgetown Liberal Studies $114,459 97 96% 33 14% 1470
14 Duke Public Policy Studies $116,508 97 95% 151 5% 1540
15 Harvard Government $109,910 97 94% 141 4% 1500
16 U. of Pennsylvania Political Science $110,430 97 89% 98 5% 1540
17 U. of Virginia Public Policy $109,477 96 95% 120 13% 1470
18 U. of Pennsylvania Legal Studies & Business Ethics $110,020 96 — 10 5% 1540
19 Brigham Young Humanities $88,101 96 82% 31 69% 1360
20 U. of California, Berkeley Social Sciences $99,114 96 92% 223 11% —
21 U. of Pennsylvania Cognitive Science $108,539 96 90% 95 5% 1540
22 Boston University Interdisciplinary Studies $109,458 96 88% 17 13% 1470
23 Yale Humanities $107,780 95 99% 24 3% 1520
24 Yale Cognitive Science $107,334 95 — 66 3% 1520
25 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics $104,170 94 95% 183 5% 1540
26 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy $104,170 94 95% 16 5% 1540
27 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Christian Ministry $84,121 94 — 22 100% 1130
28 Johns Hopkins Political Science $104,234 94 90% 23 6% 1550
29 Georgia Tech Literature, Media, and Communication $91,315 93 93% 64 13% 1460
30 Brigham Young Government $80,629 93 88% 67 69% 1360
31 Brigham Young Political Science $80,629 93 88% 51 69% 1360
32 U. of Rhode Island German $91,305 93 100% 15 75% 1200
33 Stanford Classics $100,781 93 — 10 4% 1550
34 Yale History $103,890 93 87% 121 3% 1520
35 Carnegie Mellon International Relations and Politics $102,294 93 — 16 11% 1530
36 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Philosophy $87,204 93 94% 29 30% 1330
37 Connecticut Government $100,940 92 100% 22 39% 1270
38 Georgia Tech History, Technology, and Society $89,377 92 — 17 13% 1460
39 Yale Global Affairs $102,512 92 — 76 3% 1520
40 Cornell Public Policy $102,419 92 97% 42 8% 1520
41 Brigham Young American Studies $78,249 92 90% 16 69% 1360
42 Columbia Cognitive Science $101,012 92 — 33 4% 1540
43 Stanford History $98,808 92 — 22 4% 1550
44 Duke Political Science $104,260 92 97% 81 5% 1540
45 U. of Alaska - Anchorage Geomatics $81,479 91 96% 10 69% —
46 Brown International and Public Affairs $101,154 91 94% 110 6% 1510
47 Pennsylvania State Sustainability Studies $89,582 91 100% 12 55% 1350
48 Pomona Cognitive Science $96,158 91 — 11 7% 1520
49 UCLA Public Affairs $91,424 91 91% 120 9% —
50 U. of California, Berkeley Cognitive Science $88,054 91 97% 280 11% —