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Highest ROI Life & Natural Sciences Majors

Top 50 Life & Natural Sciences college majors by ROI percentile

# 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 Brigham Young Bioinformatics 34 68% $108,378 100 +3.28 99 94% — 59% 91% 0% 0% 0% 3% 1290 1360 1430 54%
2 U. of Rhode Island Biotechnology 40 75% $118,439 100 +4.18 99 — — 32% 55% 8% 10% 12% 0% 1090 1200 1310 24%
3 UCLA Computational and Systems Biology 112 9% $116,858 100 +4.04 98 — — 40% 22% 59% 1% 4% 4% — — — —
4 U. of California, Santa Cruz Bioinformatics 61 73% $115,578 100 +3.92 98 — — 43% 28% 44% 2% 15% 3% — — — —
5 U. of Delaware Biotechnology 10 71% $113,813 100 +3.77 98 — — 30% 60% 30% 0% 10% 0% 1190 1280 1370 22%
6 U. of California, San Diego Bioinformatics 110 29% $112,874 100 +3.68 97 100% — 50% 15% 49% 1% 4% 16% — — — —
7 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice Cellular and Molecular Biology 14 57% $93,430 99 +1.95 96 92% — 21% 36% 0% 7% 50% 0% — — — —
8 U. of Detroit Mercy Biology 191 72% $102,114 100 +4.14 95 97% — 25% 63% 15% 7% 3% 5% 1030 1150 1260 57%
9 U. of Pittsburgh Computational Biology 50 59% $103,405 100 +2.84 95 — — 30% 34% 54% 2% 2% 6% 1280 1370 1460 50%
10 High Point Biology 36 60% $104,192 100 +4.38 94 94% — 25% 86% 6% 0% 8% 0% 1110 1220 1320 28%
11 U. of the Pacific Biology 154 69% $105,741 100 +4.56 94 94% — 45% 5% 69% 1% 8% 6% 1220 1340 1450 19%
12 Stockton Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 15 85% $91,869 99 +1.81 94 96% — 40% 47% 40% 13% 0% 0% 1030 1130 1230 26%
13 Virginia Commonwealth Bioinformatics 31 93% $98,545 100 +2.41 93 — — 26% 10% 61% 3% 10% 6% 1010 1140 1270 37%
14 U. of the Cumberlands Biology 34 85% $87,748 98 +2.47 93 98% — 15% 59% 0% 3% 0% 12% — — — —
15 Springfield Biomedical Sciences 12 74% $98,246 99 +2.58 93 97% — 50% 83% 0% 0% 8% 8% — — — —
16 U. of California, Davis Biotechnology 84 46% $99,258 23 -0.64 92 90% — 38% 20% 46% 0% 17% 7% — — — —
17 U. of Wisconsin - La Crosse Microbiology 15 74% $88,649 97 +2.47 92 97% — 40% 73% 7% 0% 13% 0% 1100 1210 1310 34%
18 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Biotechnology 37 68% $92,181 99 +1.84 92 97% — 49% 38% 38% 0% 14% 5% 1310 1410 1500 55%
19 Syracuse Biotechnology 20 49% $103,337 100 +2.84 91 100% — 15% 40% 30% 15% 10% 0% 1300 1360 1410 31%
20 CUNY Hunter Human Biology 506 28% $82,143 88 +1.13 91 96% — 17% 15% 39% 9% 27% 4% 1100 1270 1420 11%
21 Worcester State Biotechnology 16 72% $83,379 93 +1.06 91 96% — 56% 62% 6% 6% 12% 6% — — — —
22 Carlow Biology 29 92% $91,946 99 +2.96 91 95% — 21% 69% 10% 7% 0% 0% 960 1060 1160 29%
23 Marquette Biomedical Sciences 148 78% $99,730 100 +2.72 91 99% — 28% 68% 14% 4% 7% 0% 1200 1280 1360 40%
24 Marquette Biology 47 78% $99,730 99 +3.86 91 99% — 36% 40% 15% 11% 30% 0% 1200 1280 1360 40%
25 Coppin State Biology 13 46% $82,230 97 +1.83 91 100% — 31% 0% 0% 85% 0% 15% — — — —
26 Le Moyne Biology 70 73% $91,918 99 +2.96 90 97% — 30% 89% 4% 4% 1% 0% 1160 1250 1330 18%
27 Cal Poly - Pomona Biotechnology 36 74% $82,181 90 +0.95 90 96% — 67% 17% 33% 0% 36% 8% — — — —
28 Purdue Biochemistry 55 43% $90,029 99 +1.65 90 96% — 33% 69% 9% 5% 5% 5% 1220 1350 1470 100%
29 Purdue Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 10 43% $90,029 99 +1.65 90 96% — 60% 90% 0% 0% 10% 0% 1220 1350 1470 100%
30 U. of New Hampshire Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 30 78% $90,920 99 +1.73 90 91% — 47% 77% 0% 3% 7% 3% 1090 1210 1330 25%
31 United States Military Academy Biology 32 12% $73,068 83 +0.77 89 — — 41% 50% 25% 6% 19% 0% 1200 1320 1430 100%
32 Wayne State College Biology 37 100% $79,548 95 +1.52 89 97% — 30% 89% 0% 0% 5% 3% — — — —
33 Pennsylvania State University - Lehigh Valley Biological and Biomedical Sciences 10 92% $84,828 93 +1.38 89 99% — 10% 40% 0% 10% 40% 0% 1130 1230 1320 23%
34 U. of Idaho Biochemistry 10 75% $87,369 96 +1.41 89 100% — 40% 50% 10% 0% 30% 0% 990 1110 1230 57%
35 Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg Biomedical Sciences 22 92% $85,223 94 +1.41 89 99% — 23% 32% 41% 9% 14% 0% 1120 1220 1310 26%
36 Misericordia Biology 12 89% $91,457 99 +2.90 89 100% — 17% 92% 0% 0% 8% 0% — — — —
37 Fitchburg State Biology 28 89% $79,512 95 +1.52 89 92% 8.0% 25% 57% 7% 14% 14% 0% 1000 1090 1170 14%
38 Missouri State University - Springfield Cellular and Molecular Biology 24 93% $82,822 90 +1.01 89 97% — 54% 83% 12% 0% 4% 0% 1020 1150 1270 78%
39 U. of New Hampshire Genetics 15 78% $88,796 97 +1.54 88 97% — 40% 93% 7% 0% 0% 0% 1090 1210 1330 25%
40 U. of Colorado Denver Biochemistry 31 75% $84,607 94 +1.17 88 — — 42% 39% 19% 6% 26% 0% 980 1100 1220 25%
41 U. of Houston Biotechnology 68 76% $82,737 90 +1.00 87 94% — 35% 18% 40% 13% 24% 4% 1140 1230 1310 62%
42 Chico State Microbiology 22 91% $77,738 85 +1.00 87 97% — 50% 36% 5% 0% 45% 5% 940 1060 1170 4%
43 U. of Mississippi Biology 135 97% $85,394 97 +2.20 87 98% — 39% 74% 10% 7% 4% 1% 990 1080 1170 88%
44 U. of Minnesota - Duluth Biochemistry 37 89% $79,518 80 +0.71 87 97% — 38% 86% 0% 5% 3% 0% 1180 1260 1340 43%
45 Pennsylvania State University - Berks Biochemistry 16 92% $82,273 90 +0.96 87 96% — 50% 56% 12% 6% 19% 0% 1090 1180 1270 26%
46 San Jose State Biology 144 80% $77,155 93 +1.24 87 97% — 40% 10% 48% 3% 31% 2% 1010 1140 1270 10%
47 United States Air Force Academy Biology 75 12% $70,565 71 +0.48 87 — — 40% 52% 16% 1% 13% 1% 1230 1340 1440 100%
48 Cal State Long Beach Biochemistry 47 46% $76,587 70 +0.45 87 92% — 47% 15% 38% 0% 32% 6% — — — —
49 Central Connecticut State Molecular Biology 19 58% $76,671 70 +0.46 87 89% — 42% 58% 5% 21% 16% 0% 960 1080 1190 21%
50 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 140 60% $85,903 96 +1.28 86 89% — 44% 49% 23% 5% 7% 6% 1330 1410 1480 28%