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

Law & Public Service6 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1Fire ProtectionAssociate's Degree · 27 programs$73,375 2Criminal Justice and CorrectionsAssociate's Degree · 480 programs$46,940 3Legal Support ServicesAssociate's Degree · 121 programs$45,714 4Community Organization and AdvocacyAssociate's Degree · 12 programs$42,552 5Social WorkAssociate's Degree · 41 programs$40,761 6Human Services, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 83 programs$40,247

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.