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Highest-paying majors

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

Field familyAll fieldsSTEM & ComputingHealth & ClinicalBusiness & ManagementSocial & Behavioral SciencesEducationArts, Media & HumanitiesLaw & Public ServiceTrades & Applied Fields
Degree levelAll credentialsAssociateBachelor’sMaster’sDoctorate
All fields100 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations
31Engineering, OtherMaster's Degree · 16 programs$115,69032Applied MathematicsMaster's Degree · 17 programs$115,62933MedicineDoctoral Degree · 28 programs$115,29834Mechanical EngineeringMaster's Degree · 84 programs$115,23135Systems EngineeringBachelor's Degree · 12 programs$114,81536Chemical EngineeringMaster's Degree · 11 programs$114,03737BiotechnologyMaster's Degree · 15 programs$113,23138Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational BiologyMaster's Degree · 13 programs$111,72539TaxationMaster's Degree · 30 programs$111,70240Public HealthDoctoral Degree · 10 programs$111,41141Business Administration, Management and OperationsDoctoral Degree · 18 programs$109,68942Biomedical/Medical EngineeringMaster's Degree · 40 programs$109,39443Finance and Financial Management ServicesMaster's Degree · 72 programs$109,13744Biology, GeneralDoctoral Degree · 14 programs$108,20645Legal Research and Advanced Professional StudiesMaster's Degree · 43 programs$107,54046Computer/Information Technology Administration and ManagementMaster's Degree · 75 programs$106,83147Business/Commerce, GeneralMaster's Degree · 77 programs$106,81248MedicineFirst Professional Degree · 148 programs$106,46949Computer EngineeringBachelor's Degree · 198 programs$105,64050EconomicsMaster's Degree · 22 programs$104,08551Medical Illustration and InformaticsMaster's Degree · 27 programs$103,08952Petroleum EngineeringBachelor's Degree · 20 programs$102,59453Quality Control and Safety Technologies/TechniciansMaster's Degree · 12 programs$101,91054International BusinessMaster's Degree · 15 programs$101,44955Health Professions Education, Ethics, and HumanitiesMaster's Degree · 41 programs$101,30056Educational Administration and SupervisionDoctoral Degree · 151 programs$101,19457Construction EngineeringBachelor's Degree · 13 programs$101,10858LawDoctoral Degree · 26 programs$100,38359Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyDoctoral Degree · 97 programs$100,22260Information Science/StudiesMaster's Degree · 72 programs$99,838

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.