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

STEM & Computing23 ranked field-and-credential categories with at least 10 earnings observations

1Physical Science Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 16 programs$91,557 2Engineering Technologies/Technicians, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 24 programs$82,564 3Engineering ScienceAssociate's Degree · 18 programs$76,355 4Engineering, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 54 programs$75,246 5Industrial Production Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 42 programs$73,951 6Electromechanical Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 66 programs$73,834 7Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 71 programs$68,934 8Civil Engineering Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 11 programs$67,993 9Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 42 programs$66,606 10Computer ScienceAssociate's Degree · 33 programs$64,221 11Information Science/StudiesAssociate's Degree · 26 programs$63,006 12MathematicsAssociate's Degree · 13 programs$61,557 13Computer ProgrammingAssociate's Degree · 57 programs$59,646 14Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 43 programs$59,496 15Environmental Control Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 13 programs$57,129 16Computer/Information Technology Administration and ManagementAssociate's Degree · 135 programs$56,486 17Computer Systems Networking and TelecommunicationsAssociate's Degree · 103 programs$55,935 18Computer Engineering Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree · 22 programs$55,105 19Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 142 programs$54,238 20Data ProcessingAssociate's Degree · 21 programs$53,247 21Physical Sciences, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 24 programs$50,266 22Biology, GeneralAssociate's Degree · 53 programs$45,194 23Computer Software and Media ApplicationsAssociate's Degree · 46 programs$38,361

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.