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Highest Paying Humanities Majors

Top 50 Humanities college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings Earn % Earn z ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 Yale Special Divisional Major 117 3% $120,173 100 +6.02 97 100% — 32% 37% 20% 18% 8% 7% 1480 1520 1560 92%
2 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy 16 5% $118,547 100 +4.30 97 93% — 69% 56% 0% 6% 6% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
3 U. of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics 183 5% $118,547 100 +5.87 97 93% — 49% 52% 21% 4% 9% 8% 1500 1530 1560 70%
4 Boston College Philosophy 27 14% $117,590 100 +4.23 96 94% — 67% 63% 7% 4% 15% 4% 1440 1490 1540 45%
5 Georgetown Liberal Studies 33 14% $115,247 100 +5.55 95 84% — 61% 21% 0% 21% 24% 9% 1400 1470 1530 100%
6 Lehigh Interdisciplinary Studies 24 29% $112,405 100 +5.28 94 93% — 33% 67% 8% 17% 0% 0% 1380 1430 1480 43%
7 Dartmouth Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 17 6% $106,607 100 +3.77 92 100% — 29% 29% 29% 6% 18% 12% 1440 1500 1550 100%
8 U. of Minnesota - Crookston Individualized Studies 19 88% $106,536 100 +4.72 98 100% 3.9% 16% 68% 0% 21% 0% 0% — — — —
9 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 36 16% $105,999 100 +4.66 91 93% — 58% 72% 8% 6% 3% 3% 1370 1460 1530 73%
10 Yale Classics 10 3% $105,981 100 +4.79 91 — — 60% 60% 10% 0% 10% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
11 Dartmouth History 57 6% $105,659 100 +4.76 91 100% — 63% 63% 7% 7% 9% 5% 1440 1500 1550 100%
12 Yale History 121 3% $103,902 99 +4.59 90 87% — 42% 52% 12% 8% 13% 5% 1480 1520 1560 92%
13 Drexel Interdisciplinary Studies 10 79% $102,800 99 +4.36 90 97% 4.4% 80% 0% 40% 20% 20% 0% 1240 1340 1440 39%
14 Amherst History 25 8% $98,995 99 +4.11 87 100% — 60% 48% 12% 20% 4% 8% 1470 1510 1540 56%
15 U. of Chicago Liberal Arts 20 5% $97,643 99 +3.86 85 94% — 50% 70% 5% 5% 5% 10% 1500 1530 1560 82%
16 Yale Philosophy 21 3% $97,226 99 +2.70 85 — — 48% 48% 5% 10% 19% 10% 1480 1520 1560 92%
17 Southern Methodist Individualized Studies in the Liberal Arts 31 48% $96,934 99 +3.80 84 100% — 52% 58% 3% 3% 26% 6% 1340 1420 1490 25%
18 Northwestern Philosophy 16 8% $96,914 99 +2.67 85 — — 56% 19% 6% 6% 31% 19% 1520 1540 1560 73%
19 Williams History 30 9% $95,228 99 +3.74 83 93% — 60% 60% 10% 7% 17% 3% 1490 1520 1550 61%
20 Hobart William Smith Colleges History 10 67% $95,109 99 +3.73 87 100% — 80% 80% 0% 10% 0% 0% 1190 1290 1380 29%
21 Stanford Science, Technology, and Society 74 4% $94,556 99 +2.50 86 91% — 47% 32% 16% 18% 16% 7% 1520 1550 1570 77%
22 Wellesley Women's Studies 10 15% $94,421 100 +4.68 85 90% — 0% 40% 10% 0% 10% 10% 1460 1500 1540 62%
23 U. of Rhode Island German 15 75% $94,289 100 +3.23 92 94% — 73% 80% 0% 0% 7% 0% 1090 1200 1310 24%
24 Champlain Liberal Studies 18 59% $93,967 99 +3.51 89 94% 2.2% 28% 56% 6% 11% 6% 0% 1220 1300 1380 17%
25 Franklin and Marshall Interdisciplinary Studies 75 32% $93,835 99 +3.50 81 95% — 37% 57% 4% 9% 15% 12% 1310 1390 1470 38%
26 Emory Quantitative Sciences 109 10% $92,363 99 +3.36 81 100% — 42% 20% 25% 5% 6% 41% 1480 1510 1540 68%
27 Wake Forest English 30 18% $91,845 100 +4.81 79 100% — 13% 80% 0% 3% 13% 0% 1420 1460 1490 46%
28 Brigham Young Spanish 31 68% $91,455 100 +2.98 95 78% — 55% 87% 0% 0% 10% 0% 1290 1360 1430 54%
29 James Madison Science, Technology and Society 61 69% $91,010 97 +2.23 91 99% — 79% 70% 3% 7% 10% 0% 1180 1260 1330 19%
30 Yale English 68 3% $90,816 100 +4.68 79 93% — 26% 57% 13% 6% 10% 6% 1480 1520 1560 92%
31 Columbia Near Eastern and Semitic Languages 10 5% $90,427 100 +2.89 79 95% — 10% 10% 0% 20% 0% 30% 1510 1540 1560 67%
32 Wake Forest History 22 18% $89,746 99 +3.21 77 94% — 32% 68% 0% 5% 0% 18% 1420 1460 1490 46%
33 Emory History 26 10% $89,597 99 +3.19 78 100% — 38% 73% 8% 0% 8% 8% 1480 1510 1540 68%
34 Georgetown American Studies 22 14% $88,559 100 +2.33 77 94% — 23% 77% 9% 0% 0% 5% 1400 1470 1530 100%
35 Brown History 47 6% $88,540 99 +3.09 75 88% — 43% 60% 4% 9% 11% 4% 1470 1510 1550 100%
36 Columbia History 95 5% $88,294 98 +3.06 77 93% — 52% 46% 14% 7% 5% 11% 1510 1540 1560 67%
37 U. of Colorado Boulder Philosophy 49 71% $88,212 97 +2.02 86 94% — 53% 65% 6% 0% 16% 2% 1130 1250 1370 33%
38 Duke History 23 5% $88,170 98 +3.05 73 91% — 57% 43% 17% 0% 22% 0% 1510 1540 1570 75%
39 Clemson Foreign Languages 42 42% $87,975 100 +2.67 86 96% — 26% 55% 0% 7% 21% 2% 1250 1330 1400 57%
40 U. of Texas at Austin Plan II 164 27% $87,959 98 +2.94 86 86% — 48% 63% 9% 1% 22% 2% 1320 1450 1530 74%
41 U. of Texas at Austin Liberal Arts 142 27% $87,959 98 +2.94 86 86% — 39% 45% 23% 2% 23% 2% 1320 1450 1530 74%
42 Colgate History 27 18% $87,766 98 +3.01 75 96% — 48% 74% 0% 4% 7% 7% 1450 1480 1510 39%
43 Rice History 19 8% $87,246 98 +2.96 74 100% — 37% 63% 0% 5% 16% 11% 1510 1540 1560 83%
44 Brown Independent Concentration 10 6% $87,227 98 +2.87 73 — — 70% 30% 20% 10% 10% 0% 1470 1510 1550 100%
45 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Philosophy 29 30% $87,204 96 +1.94 90 94% — 48% 48% 14% 3% 24% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
46 Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Studies 194 5% $86,649 98 +2.81 73 96% — 36% 38% 23% 16% 11% 3% 1510 1540 1560 52%
47 Bucknell History 15 32% $86,127 97 +2.85 72 100% — 67% 80% 0% 7% 0% 0% 1170 1270 1360 86%
48 Harvard Philosophy 29 4% $86,058 94 +1.86 78 — — 38% 34% 24% 10% 14% 14% 1440 1500 1550 100%
49 Princeton History 76 4% $85,569 97 +2.80 78 98% — 64% 61% 14% 3% 9% 4% 1490 1530 1560 80%
50 Southern Methodist Spanish 12 48% $85,553 100 +2.45 71 97% — 25% 50% 0% 0% 42% 0% 1340 1420 1490 25%