A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t
Arfa Momin finished her bachelor’s degree in May. Ron Lieber is one-third finished with paying for his children’s degrees.
History majors can out-earn English majors by more than $50,000 four years after graduation.
A Juilliard graduate — trained at one of the country’s most prestigious music schools — may not earn more than the median high school graduate.
And the place to get the single most lucrative degree in America wasn’t in the Ivy League, and it wasn’t in a computer science program. It was in the mathematics department at Duke, where the median income among graduates was $297,029.
