OBSERVED EARNINGS · LIKE-FOR-LIKE CATEGORIES

Highest-paying majors

National median earnings four years after completion, keeping field and credential level visible.

Field familyAll fields STEM & Computing Health & Clinical Business & Management Social & Behavioral Sciences Education Arts, Media & Humanities Law & Public Service Trades & Applied Fields

Degree levelAll credentials Associate Bachelor’s Master’s Doctorate

Trades & Applied Fields6 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1City/Urban, Community, and Regional PlanningMaster's Degree · 36 programs$81,958 2Architectural Sciences and TechnologyMaster's Degree · 30 programs$77,127 3ArchitectureMaster's Degree · 51 programs$73,496 4Natural Resources Conservation and ResearchMaster's Degree · 58 programs$72,805 5Environmental/Natural Resources Management and PolicyMaster's Degree · 16 programs$68,968 6Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/FitnessMaster's Degree · 165 programs$60,645

Field families are reproducible groupings of federal two-digit CIP subject codes. Rankings require at least 10 programs with reported year-4 earnings; missing or suppressed values are not replaced with zero.