Top 20 graduate degrees in the U.S. by mid-career pay 2016/17

This graph shows the list of graduate degrees with the highest mid-career salary in the U.S. in the academic year 2016/17. In 2016/17, petroleum engineering was ranked first with the mid-career salary of 172,000 U.S. dollars.

Highest paying graduate degrees in the U.S. in 2016/17, by mid-career salary (in U.S. dollars)

Graduate degree	Mid-career pay in U.S. dollars
Nurse Anesthesia (Master's)	156,000$
Strategy (MBA)	149,000$
Chemical Engineering (PhD)	146,000$
General & Strategic Management (MBA)	146,000$
Organic Chemistry (PhD)	146,000$
Computer Science (CS) (PhD)	145,000$
Electrical Engineering (EE) (PhD)	144,000$
Pharmacology (PhD)	141,000$
Entrepreneurship (MBA)	139,000$
Corporate Finance (MBA)	138,000$
Physical Chemistry (PhD)	138,000$
Engineering (PhD)	137,000$
Finance & Economics (MBA)	137,000$
Physics (PhD)	135,000$
Computer Science (CS) & Engineering (Master's)	134,000$
Biomedical Engineering (BME) (PhD)	133,000$
Statistics (PhD)	131,000$
Finance (MBA)	130,000$
Operations Research (Master's)	130,000$
Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) (Master's)	129,000$
Taxation (Master's)	129,000$

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September 2016

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United States

Survey time period

2016-2017

Supplementary notes

The list includes MBA focuses, non-MBA master's degree majors, Bachelor's degree majors and associate degree majors.
Mid-career salary is defined as the median salary for alumni with 10 or more years of work experience.

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