Highest-Paying Biological Sciences Programs
Colleges whose biological sciences graduates earn the most one year after finishing, across all bachelor's programs in the field.
Ranked by median earnings, 1 year after completing · 942 of 2,406 institutions report this measure · Compiled 2026-09-01
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#1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
#2
University of Maryland Global Campus
Adelphi, MD
#3
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
- 1Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA · Private$52,576Compare nearby
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- Graduates Earn the Most 10 Years Out#1
- Business#1
- Liberal Arts#1
- Multidisciplinary Studies#2
- Physical Sciences#2
- Best Early-Career Earnings, 6 Years After Enrolling#3
- the Highest SAT Averages#4
- Best Student-to-Faculty Ratios#5
- Best Earnings-to-Debt Ratio#6
- Most Selective Colleges in America#7
- Highest Four-Year Graduation Rates#8
- Computer Science#10
- Engineering#11
- Mathematics & Statistics#12
- Are Least Likely to Leave#14
- 2University of Maryland Global CampusAdelphi, MD · Public$51,273Compare nearby
- 3Stanford UniversityStanford, CA · Private$51,160Compare nearby
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- Computer Science#2
- Engineering Technology#3
- Most Selective Colleges in America#3
- Best Earnings-to-Debt Ratio#4
- Psychology#6
- the Highest SAT Averages#6
- the Highest ACT Scores#7
- Best Early-Career Earnings, 6 Years After Enrolling#7
- Graduates Earn the Most 10 Years Out#7
- Area & Ethnic Studies#8
- Social Sciences#8
- Engineering#10
- English Language & Literature#18
- Multidisciplinary Studies#22
- Are Least Likely to Leave#24
- 4Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA · Private$46,673Compare nearby
Also on 13 other lists
- Highest Four-Year Graduation Rates#2
- Most Selective Colleges in America#2
- the Highest ACT Scores#3
- Psychology#3
- the Highest SAT Averages#3
- Computer Science#4
- Mathematics & Statistics#6
- English Language & Literature#8
- History#8
- Best Early-Career Earnings, 6 Years After Enrolling#10
- Are Least Likely to Leave#18
- Social Sciences#21
- Best Earnings-to-Debt Ratio#24
- 5Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester, MA · Private$44,971Compare nearby
- 6University of Detroit MercyDetroit, MI · Private$44,971Compare nearby
- 7California State University-East BayHayward, CA · Public$44,720Compare nearby
- 8San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, CA · Public$44,356Compare nearby
- 9Saint Anselm CollegeManchester, NH · Private$44,356Compare nearby
- 10Upper Iowa UniversityFayette, IA · Private$43,798Compare nearby
- 11University of Maine at AugustaAugusta, ME · Public$42,682Compare nearby
- 12Endicott CollegeBeverly, MA · Private$42,682Compare nearby
- 13Franklin Pierce UniversityRindge, NH · Private$42,682Compare nearby
- 14Neumann UniversityAston, PA · Private$42,682Compare nearby
- 15Rivier UniversityNashua, NH · Private$42,235Compare nearby
- 16Bellevue UniversityBellevue, NE · Private$41,937Compare nearby
- 17Carlow UniversityPittsburgh, PA · Private$41,937Compare nearby
- 18Western Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI · Public$41,856Compare nearby
- 19Hampton UniversityHampton, VA · Private$41,565Compare nearby
- 20MCPHS UniversityBoston, MA · Private$41,342Compare nearby
- 21University of Massachusetts-LowellLowell, MA · Public$40,792Compare nearby
- 22Marian UniversityFond Du Lac, WI · Private$40,737Compare nearby
- 23Metropolitan State UniversitySaint Paul, MN · Public$40,697Compare nearby
- 24DeSales UniversityCenter Valley, PA · Private$40,605Compare nearby
- 25Utah Valley UniversityOrem, UT · Public$40,590Compare nearby
How this list was built
- Measure
- Median earnings, 1 year after completing — sorted highest to lowest
- Source variable
EARN_MDN_HI_1YR- Dataset
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, Most-Recent-Cohorts-Field-of-Study (04-17-2025 release)
- Where a college offers several biological sciences programs, the figure shown is the median across those programs.
- Earnings cover graduates who received federal financial aid, were working and not enrolled one year after completing, and whose highest credential is that bachelor's degree.
- 942 institutions report earnings for this field; programs with too few graduates are suppressed for privacy by the Department of Education and cannot be ranked.
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