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

Health & Clinical75 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral SciencesGraduate/Professional Certificate · 13 programs$221,809 2Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical StudiesMaster's Degree · 12 programs$201,718 3Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral SciencesMaster's Degree · 17 programs$201,547 4DentistryFirst Professional Degree · 59 programs$175,048 5Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationMaster's Degree · 15 programs$142,512 6Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationDoctoral Degree · 45 programs$137,496 7Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationFirst Professional Degree · 90 programs$136,211 8Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingDoctoral Degree · 127 programs$135,560 9Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingFirst Professional Degree · 31 programs$135,340 10Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesMaster's Degree · 14 programs$133,189 11OptometryFirst Professional Degree · 18 programs$131,497 12Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingGraduate/Professional Certificate · 38 programs$128,518 13Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 219 programs$127,297 14Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationBachelor's Degree · 34 programs$122,169 15Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingMaster's Degree · 447 programs$120,338 16MedicineDoctoral Degree · 28 programs$115,298 17Public HealthDoctoral Degree · 10 programs$111,411 18MedicineFirst Professional Degree · 148 programs$106,469 19Medical Illustration and InformaticsMaster's Degree · 27 programs$103,089 20Health Professions Education, Ethics, and HumanitiesMaster's Degree · 41 programs$101,300 21Communication Disorders Sciences and ServicesDoctoral Degree · 25 programs$88,326 22Health and Medical Administrative ServicesMaster's Degree · 218 programs$87,932 23Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingBachelor's Degree · 1,053 programs$86,259 24Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 11 programs$83,306 25Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsDoctoral Degree · 178 programs$82,669 26Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, GeneralMaster's Degree · 20 programs$81,617 27Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsFirst Professional Degree · 63 programs$81,327 28Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · 69 programs$80,951 29Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssociate's Degree · 1,032 programs$79,954 30Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesBachelor's Degree · 16 programs$79,657

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.