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Is your major worth it?

The field you pick swings your lifetime payoff by $1.24M — before you’ve chosen a single school. Every bachelor’s category, with the honest statistics: mean, median, spread, the share who never break even.

FREOPP 2021 per-program lifetime ROI · cohort-weighted · bachelor’s degrees · names no institution · see them ranked

  1. 1 Is a philosophy and religious studies degree worth it? −$112K
  2. 2 Is a visual arts and music degree worth it? −$68K
  3. 3 Is a psychology degree worth it? +$68K
  4. 4 Is a life sciences and biology degree worth it? +$106K
  5. 5 Is a education degree worth it? +$121K
  6. 6 Is a english, liberal arts, and humanities degree worth it? +$145K
  7. 7 Is a social sciences excluding economics degree worth it? +$183K
  8. 8 Is a miscellaneous degree worth it? +$190K
  9. 9 Is a public administration and human services degree worth it? +$200K
  10. 10 Is a communications and journalism degree worth it? +$228K
  11. 11 Is a agriculture and natural resources degree worth it? +$303K
  12. 12 Is a physical sciences degree worth it? +$404K
  13. 13 Is a business and management degree worth it? +$579K
  14. 14 Is a mathematics and statistics degree worth it? +$594K
  15. 15 Is a economics degree worth it? +$639K
  16. 16 Is a health and nursing degree worth it? +$776K
  17. 17 Is a transportation, construction, and architecture degree worth it? +$817K
  18. 18 Is a computer and information sciences degree worth it? +$936K
  19. 19 Is a engineering degree worth it? +$1.13M