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 & Clinical6 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationDoctoral Degree · 45 programs$137,496 2Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingDoctoral Degree · 127 programs$135,560 3MedicineDoctoral Degree · 28 programs$115,298 4Public HealthDoctoral Degree · 10 programs$111,411 5Communication Disorders Sciences and ServicesDoctoral Degree · 25 programs$88,326 6Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsDoctoral Degree · 178 programs$82,669

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.