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Inside the college majors at elite universities where graduates earn more than $250,000—over 4 times their peers
Carnegie Mellon had six programs whose graduates earned more than $150,000 annually—the most of any university on the list.
With a challenging job market, mounting student loan debt, and warnings of further disruption from AI, more Gen Z college graduates are questioning whether the time and money spent earning a degree will pay off. But new data points to some major exceptions, where graduates of certain degrees are earning median incomes well above $200,000. Mathematics graduates from Duke University are bringing home median annual earnings of…
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