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 & Clinical18 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical StudiesMaster's Degree · 12 programs$201,718 2Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral SciencesMaster's Degree · 17 programs$201,547 3Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationMaster's Degree · 15 programs$142,512 4Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesMaster's Degree · 14 programs$133,189 5Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 219 programs$127,297 6Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingMaster's Degree · 447 programs$120,338 7Medical Illustration and InformaticsMaster's Degree · 27 programs$103,089 8Health Professions Education, Ethics, and HumanitiesMaster's Degree · 41 programs$101,300 9Health and Medical Administrative ServicesMaster's Degree · 218 programs$87,932 10Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 11 programs$83,306 11Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, GeneralMaster's Degree · 20 programs$81,617 12Public HealthMaster's Degree · 207 programs$79,533 13Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, OtherMaster's Degree · 18 programs$73,446 14Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 214 programs$71,838 15Communication Disorders Sciences and ServicesMaster's Degree · 247 programs$66,494 16Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition ServicesMaster's Degree · 34 programs$63,165 17Mental and Social Health Services and Allied ProfessionsMaster's Degree · 216 programs$59,973 18Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical SystemsMaster's Degree · 26 programs$34,068

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.