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Highest ROI Majors
Top 50 college majors by ROI percentile (net of opportunity cost)
| # | College | Major | Earnings | ROI | Employ | Degrees | Accept | SAT | |
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| 1 | U. of Pennsylvania | Health Care Management & Policy | $311,458 | 100 | 95% | 23 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 2 | U. of Pennsylvania | Finance | $310,624 | 100 | 95% | 354 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 3 | U. of Pennsylvania | Logic, Information, & Computation | $294,852 | 100 | 100% | 150 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 4 | U. of Pennsylvania | $277,260 | 100 | 94% | 45 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 5 | Brown | Computer Science | $265,622 | 100 | 93% | 243 | 6% | 1510 |
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| 6 | Yale | Computer Science | $262,438 | 100 | 100% | 145 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 7 | Yale | Computer Science and Economics | $262,438 | 100 | 100% | 10 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 8 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science | $253,580 | 100 | 96% | 280 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 9 | U. of Pennsylvania | Entrepreneurship & Innovation | $236,323 | 100 | 95% | 14 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 10 | Stanford | Computer Science | $221,819 | 100 | 98% | 446 | 4% | 1550 |
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| 11 | U. of Chicago | Computer Science | $224,666 | 100 | 92% | 174 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 12 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science & Mathematics | $220,132 | 100 | 98% | 54 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 13 | U. of California, Berkeley | Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | $210,366 | 100 | 97% | 505 | 11% | — |
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| 14 | Brown | Computer Science and Economics | $220,082 | 100 | — | 57 | 6% | 1510 |
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| 15 | Harvard | Statistics | $215,398 | 100 | 94% | 63 | 4% | 1500 |
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| 16 | MIT | Mathematics (Course 18) | $212,007 | 100 | 97% | 97 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 17 | Rice | Computer Science | $215,952 | 100 | 91% | 197 | 8% | 1540 |
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| 18 | U. of Washington - Bothell | Computer Engineering | $203,232 | 100 | 97% | 13 | 86% | 1200 |
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| 19 | U. of Washington - Tacoma | Computer Engineering and Systems | $203,232 | 100 | 97% | 10 | 83% | 1070 |
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| 20 | MIT | Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) | $206,801 | 100 | 94% | 323 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 21 | Harvard | Computer Science | $206,318 | 100 | 97% | 224 | 4% | 1500 |
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| 22 | Cornell | Computer Science | $209,884 | 100 | 96% | 516 | 8% | 1520 |
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| 23 | U. of California, Berkeley | Computer Science | $196,962 | 100 | 98% | 915 | 11% | — |
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| 24 | Southwestern Oklahoma State | Pharmaceutical Sciences | $186,372 | 100 | 100% | 71 | 100% | — |
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| 25 | Yale | Computing and the Arts | $205,072 | 100 | — | 17 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 26 | Duke | Computer Science | $207,237 | 100 | 99% | 238 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 27 | Princeton | Computer Science | $201,352 | 100 | 100% | 194 | 4% | 1530 |
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| 28 | Harvey Mudd | Computer Science | $200,694 | 100 | 93% | 54 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 29 | Washington University in St Louis | Finance | $203,101 | 100 | 100% | 101 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 30 | MIT | Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4) | $193,751 | 100 | — | 85 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 31 | Pomona | Computer Science | $193,864 | 100 | 100% | 77 | 7% | 1520 |
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| 32 | Yale | Computer Science & Mathematics | $195,418 | 100 | — | 20 | 3% | 1520 |
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| 33 | Columbia | Computer Science | $189,073 | 100 | 95% | 377 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 34 | Amherst | Computer Science | $187,720 | 100 | 94% | 59 | 8% | 1510 |
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| 35 | U. of Pennsylvania | Statistics and Data Science | $185,983 | 100 | 94% | 38 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 36 | Duke | Mathematics and Computer Science | $190,434 | 100 | — | 10 | 5% | 1540 |
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| 37 | MIT | Financial Mathematics (Course 18) | $181,704 | 100 | — | 20 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 38 | Columbia | Operations Research | $186,286 | 100 | 95% | 55 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 39 | Carnegie Mellon | Electrical & Computer Engineering | $185,819 | 100 | 99% | 247 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 40 | Carnegie Mellon | Artificial Intelligence | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 38 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 41 | Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science and Arts | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 14 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 42 | Carnegie Mellon | Information Technology | $185,110 | 100 | 98% | 12 | 11% | 1530 |
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| 43 | MIT | Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) | $179,558 | 100 | 96% | 59 | 5% | 1550 |
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| 44 | Dartmouth | Computer Science | $183,665 | 100 | 98% | 136 | 6% | 1500 |
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| 45 | Washington University in St Louis | Computer Science | $183,662 | 100 | 100% | 160 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 46 | Bowdoin | Computer Science | $179,741 | 100 | 95% | 42 | 7% | 1510 |
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| 47 | Columbia | Information Science/Studies | $178,806 | 100 | — | 23 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 48 | Columbia | Computer Engineering | $177,537 | 100 | 100% | 21 | 4% | 1540 |
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| 49 | Washington University in St Louis | Entrepreneurship | $178,729 | 100 | — | 11 | 12% | 1530 |
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| 50 | MIT | Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18-C) | $172,247 | 100 | 82% | 29 | 5% | 1550 |
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