Highest Paying Jobs With a Bachelor’s Degree
Your major can have an even bigger impact on future earnings than choice of school. Find out which majors pay you back, and which make it hard to pay back student loans.
| Rank | Major | Degree Type | Early Career Pay
|
Mid-Career Pay
|
% High Meaning
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank :1 | Major :Petroleum Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$97,500 | Mid-Career Pay :$212,500 | % High Meaning :61% |
| Rank :2 | Major :Operations Research & Industrial Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$98,300 | Mid-Career Pay :$191,800 | % High Meaning :21% |
| Rank :3 | Major :Interaction Design | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$74,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$173,600 | % High Meaning :54% |
| Rank :4 | Major :Applied Economics and Management | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$76,500 | Mid-Career Pay :$164,400 | % High Meaning :54% |
| Rank :5 | Major :Building Science | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$69,000 | Mid-Career Pay :$163,100 | % High Meaning :47% |
| Rank :6 | Major :Actuarial Mathematics | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$70,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$160,000 | % High Meaning :52% |
| Rank :6 | Major :Operations Research | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$92,200 | Mid-Career Pay :$160,000 | % High Meaning :57% |
| Rank :8 | Major :Systems Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$87,000 | Mid-Career Pay :$159,100 | % High Meaning :58% |
| Rank :9 | Major :Optical Science & Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$79,600 | Mid-Career Pay :$158,300 | % High Meaning :73% |
| Rank :10 | Major :Information & Computer Science | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$76,000 | Mid-Career Pay :$157,800 | % High Meaning :63% |
| Rank :11 | Major :Aeronautics & Astronautics | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$88,200 | Mid-Career Pay :$156,900 | % High Meaning :56% |
| Rank :12 | Major :Aerospace Studies | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$62,600 | Mid-Career Pay :$154,300 | % High Meaning :- |
| Rank :13 | Major :Pharmacy | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$69,400 | Mid-Career Pay :$154,000 | % High Meaning :79% |
| Rank :14 | Major :Cognitive Science | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$78,000 | Mid-Career Pay :$153,800 | % High Meaning :43% |
| Rank :15 | Major :Managerial Economics | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$74,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$153,300 | % High Meaning :38% |
| Rank :16 | Major :Quantitative Economics | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$74,500 | Mid-Career Pay :$152,700 | % High Meaning :43% |
| Rank :17 | Major :Econometrics | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$72,000 | Mid-Career Pay :$152,100 | % High Meaning :35% |
| Rank :18 | Major :Foreign Affairs | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$62,900 | Mid-Career Pay :$152,000 | % High Meaning :32% |
| Rank :19 | Major :Chemical Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$85,600 | Mid-Career Pay :$151,800 | % High Meaning :55% |
| Rank :20 | Major :Public Accounting | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$69,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$151,200 | % High Meaning :47% |
| Rank :21 | Major :Political Economy | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$73,100 | Mid-Career Pay :$150,600 | % High Meaning :31% |
| Rank :22 | Major :Corporate Accounting & Finance | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$76,800 | Mid-Career Pay :$149,600 | % High Meaning :50% |
| Rank :23 | Major :Actuarial Science | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$76,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$149,000 | % High Meaning :42% |
| Rank :24 | Major :Computer Engineering (CE) | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$89,100 | Mid-Career Pay :$148,500 | % High Meaning :46% |
| Rank :25 | Major :Electrical Power Engineering | Degree Type :Bachelors | Early Career Pay :$84,700 | Mid-Career Pay :$148,300 | % High Meaning :72% |
