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# Major Year 1 Year 5 Median Year 10
21 Marketing $61,580 $94,210 $134,070
22 Business Administration and Management $62,777 $91,959 $130,052
23 Civil Engineering $67,983 $89,075 $107,088
24 Agricultural Engineering $65,576 $86,102 $108,603
25 Geological/Geophysical Engineering $63,826 $85,454 $91,987
26 Mathematics $55,432 $84,468 $107,201
27 Food Science and Technology $64,774 $84,259 $102,457
28 Applied Mathematics $55,935 $83,557 $119,554
29 Economics $51,693 $82,498 $119,120
30 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research $78,747 $82,474 $94,645
31 Biological/Biomedical Sciences, General $37,285 $79,157 $124,613
32 Agricultural Business and Management $52,989 $78,872 $100,874
33 General Sales, Merchandising, and Related Marketing Operations $55,026 $78,235 $106,785
34 Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies $48,710 $75,243 $107,526
35 Health and Physical Education/Fitness $32,234 $71,559 $83,130
36 Journalism $43,642 $70,830 $94,456
37 Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions $62,051 $69,622 $82,021
38 Physics $42,201 $68,560 $99,411
39 Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences $43,948 $68,065 $74,055
40 Microbiological Sciences and Immunology $42,908 $68,002 $101,595

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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.