Top Majors at Iowa State University of Science & Technology

IA · Ranked by 5-year median salary · 75 majors with data

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#	Major	Year 1	Year 5 Median	Year 10
21	Agricultural Business and Management	$55,655	$72,743	$91,365
22	Food Science and Technology	$54,234	$71,931	$92,834
23	Mathematics	$50,767	$70,774	$86,568
24	Architectural Sciences and Technology	$55,560	$69,714	$87,827
25	Public Administration	$43,517	$68,968	$74,301
26	Marketing	$48,349	$67,842	$87,748
27	Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	$60,442	$65,986	$72,585
28	International Agriculture	$50,919	$64,470	$97,992
29	Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology	$37,774	$64,460	$96,390
30	Chemistry	$39,129	$64,257	$91,284
31	City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning	$41,131	$64,114	$81,907
32	Plant Sciences	$47,615	$63,214	$75,542
33	Landscape Architecture	$50,120	$62,868	$78,096
34	Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences	$43,463	$62,818	$68,450
35	Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	$44,657	$62,592	$78,083
36	Microbiological Sciences and Immunology	$42,490	$62,306	$81,561
37	Nutrition Sciences	$31,637	$62,105	$83,557
38	Criminal Justice and Corrections	$40,288	$61,675	—
39	Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication	$40,673	$61,142	$76,823
40	Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies	$43,879	$61,085	$72,585

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Data sources: US Census Bureau Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). Cost-of-living index: BLS Regional CPI & MIT Living Wage Project. Cost of attendance: IPEDS. For informational use only; data may be suppressed for small cohort sizes.