Highest Earning Doctoral Physical Sciences Programs

These are the highest earning doctoral physical sciences programs, ranked by median earnings. The ranking includes 50 programs, with University of California-Los Angeles leading at $178,137.

Rank	Institution	Program	State	Earnings	Completers
1	University of California-Los Angeles	Physics	CA	$178,137	14
2	University of California-Berkeley	Physics	CA	$177,589	39
3	Stanford University	Chemistry	CA	$170,898	44
4	University of California-Berkeley	Chemistry	CA	$168,396	66
5	University of California-San Diego	Physics	CA	$166,997	21
6	University of California-Santa Barbara	Materials Science	CA	$164,651	22
7	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Physics	IL	$163,024	35
8	Indiana University-Bloomington	Chemistry	IN	$148,634	29
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Physics	MI	$141,253	32
10	University of California-Davis	Physics	CA	$141,034	21
11	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	Chemistry	CO	$139,296	33
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Chemistry	MA	$137,404	47
13	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Chemistry	GA	$137,217	27
14	University of California-San Diego	Chemistry	CA	$136,333	38
15	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Physics	OH	$132,984	29
16	University of California-Los Angeles	Chemistry	CA	$132,569	37
17	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Chemistry	IL	$131,278	29
18	Yale University	Chemistry	CT	$125,373	39
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Chemistry	MI	$125,069	53
20	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Chemistry	NC	$123,298	18
21	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Chemistry	OH	$123,152	46
22	Stanford University	Geological Sciences	CA	$120,024	19
23	California Institute of Technology	Chemistry	CA	$119,626	39
24	Johns Hopkins University	Chemistry	MD	$119,378	33
25	University of California-Riverside	Chemistry	CA	$118,789	24
26	University of California-Irvine	Chemistry	CA	$117,395	41
27	University of Oregon	Chemistry	OR	$117,141	16
28	Northwestern University	Chemistry	IL	$116,234	42
29	University of Notre Dame	Chemistry	IN	$116,010	28
30	Purdue University-Main Campus	Chemistry	IN	$115,831	52
31	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	Chemistry	PA	$115,630	29
32	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chemistry	NC	$114,619	39
33	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Chemistry	TN	$114,312	24
34	Michigan State University	Chemistry	MI	$113,129	28
35	University of Delaware	Chemistry	DE	$112,400	18
36	University of California-Davis	Chemistry	CA	$111,674	44
37	University of South Carolina-Columbia	Chemistry	SC	$110,812	27
38	University at Buffalo	Chemistry	NY	$109,414	21
39	University of Georgia	Chemistry	GA	$109,307	19
40	University of Colorado Boulder	Chemistry	CO	$107,618	28
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Chemistry	WI	$105,406	57
42	University of Florida	Chemistry	FL	$100,761	46
43	University of Iowa	Chemistry	IA	$100,644	21
44	University of California-San Diego	Geological Sciences	CA	$100,332	35
45	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	Chemistry	PA	$99,566	27
46	Florida International University	Chemistry	FL	$99,213	21
47	Oregon State University	Geological Sciences	OR	$97,886	6
48	Florida State University	Chemistry	FL	$94,387	31
49	The University of Texas at Austin	Geological Sciences	TX	$92,982	28
50	Syracuse University	Chemistry	NY	$91,446	13

Methodology

Programs ranked by highest earning. Only includes doctoral programs in CIP family 40 (Physical Sciences) with at least 10 completers. Data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.