Highest-Paying Business Programs
Colleges whose business graduates earn the most one year after finishing, across all bachelor's programs in the field.
Ranked by median earnings, 1 year after completing · 1,337 of 2,406 institutions report this measure · Compiled 2026-09-01
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#1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
#3
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
#7
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
- 1Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA · Private$106,421Compare nearby
Also on 15 other lists
- Graduates Earn the Most 10 Years Out#1
- Biological Sciences#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
- 2Bismarck State CollegeBismarck, ND · Public$94,408Compare nearby
- 3Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA · Private$89,534Compare nearby
Also on 12 other lists
- Social Sciences#2
- Visual & Performing Arts#3
- Multidisciplinary Studies#4
- Best Early-Career Earnings, 6 Years After Enrolling#6
- Philosophy & Religious Studies#6
- Mathematics & Statistics#8
- Physical Sciences#8
- the Highest SAT Averages#10
- Graduates Earn the Most 10 Years Out#11
- Architecture#12
- Best Student-to-Faculty Ratios#13
- Computer Science#19
- 4Washington University in St LouisSaint Louis, MO · Private$84,653Compare nearby
- 5University of Virginia-Main CampusCharlottesville, VA · Public$78,719Compare nearby
- 6Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester, MA · Private$77,774Compare nearby
- 7Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC · Private$75,355Compare nearby
- 8Stevens Institute of TechnologyHoboken, NJ · Private$74,890Compare nearby
- 9University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA · Private$74,200Compare nearby
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- Philosophy & Religious Studies#2
- Most Expensive Colleges by Sticker Price#4
- Communications#4
- Mathematics & Statistics#4
- Highest Four-Year Graduation Rates#5
- Multidisciplinary Studies#5
- History#10
- the Highest SAT Averages#11
- Most Selective Colleges in America#11
- Graduates Earn the Most 10 Years Out#12
- Engineering#12
- Best Early-Career Earnings, 6 Years After Enrolling#17
- Computer Science#18
- Are Least Likely to Leave#20
- Social Sciences#22
- 10University of Michigan-Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI · Public$74,007Compare nearby
- 11University of California-BerkeleyBerkeley, CA · Public$73,549Compare nearby
- 12Wake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, NC · Private$73,121Compare nearby
- 13Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA · Private$73,112Compare nearby
- 14Golden Gate UniversitySan Francisco, CA · Private$71,351Compare nearby
- 15Villanova UniversityVillanova, PA · Private$71,139Compare nearby
- 16Brown UniversityProvidence, RI · Private$70,009Compare nearby
- 17Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara, CA · Private$69,921Compare nearby
- 18New York UniversityNew York, NY · Private$69,338Compare nearby
- 19Northcentral UniversitySan Diego, CA · Private$69,338Compare nearby
- 20The University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX · Public$69,264Compare nearby
- 21Northeastern UniversityBoston, MA · Private$68,390Compare nearby
- 22Maine Maritime AcademyCastine, ME · Public$68,357Compare nearby
- 23University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA · Private$67,740Compare nearby
- 24Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA · Private$67,438Compare nearby
- 25University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN · Private$67,389Compare 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 business 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.
- 1,337 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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