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Cognitive Science

Pay figures are each school's median earnings five years after graduation for THIS major (College Scorecard). The spread is real: where you study it changes what it pays. Click a column to sort.

schools offer it

2,375

grads per year

$78,782

median pay 5 yrs out

$69,292-$109,527

typical range

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50 schools shown

School	Div	State	Grads/yr	Median pay 5 yrs out
University of California, San Diego	D1	CA	722	$85,159
University of California, Berkeley	D1	CA	257	$100,651
University of California, Los Angeles	D1	CA	237	$78,267
University of California, Davis	D1	CA	190	$68,463
University of Michigan	D1	MI	138	$79,016
Stanford University	D1	CA	83	$131,650
University of Pennsylvania	D1	PA	80	$109,527
Washington University in St. Louis	D3	MO	64	$67,212
University of Delaware	D1	DE	61	$69,292
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	D3	MA	61	n/a
University of Georgia	D1	GA	49	$61,591
Case Western Reserve University	D3	OH	48	n/a
Yale University	D1	CT	44	n/a
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	D1	NJ	40	n/a
Tufts University	D3	MA	33	$130,801
Dartmouth College	D1	NH	33	n/a
University of Texas at Dallas	D2	TX	33	n/a
Occidental College	D3	CA	24	$78,782
New York University	D3	NY	16	n/a
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	D1	IL	14	n/a
Carnegie Mellon University	D3	PA	13	$162,106
Indiana University, Bloomington	D1	IN	12	n/a
Lehigh University	D1	PA	12	n/a
U.S. Military Academy	D1	NY	11	n/a
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges	D3	CA	9	n/a
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	D1	NY	9	n/a
Carleton College	D3	MN	7	n/a
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	D3	NY	7	n/a
State University of New York at Oneonta	D3	NY	7	$76,118
State University of New York at Oswego	D3	NY	7	$76,118
Duke University	D1	NC	7	n/a
Brown University	D1	RI	7	n/a
Franklin & Marshall College	D3	PA	6	n/a
Swarthmore College	D3	PA	6	n/a
University of Minnesota Duluth	D2	MN	5	n/a
Minnesota State University, Mankato	D2	MN	3	n/a
George Fox University	D3	OR	3	n/a
Beloit College	D3	WI	3	n/a
California State University, Stanislaus	D2	CA	2	n/a
Chapman University	D3	CA	2	n/a
Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges	D3	CA	2	n/a
University of Chicago	D3	IL	2	n/a
Columbia University-Barnard College	D1	NY	2	n/a
Haverford College	D3	PA	2	n/a
California State University, Fresno	D1	CA	1	n/a
University of Evansville	D1	IN	1	n/a
Simmons University	D3	MA	?	n/a
University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic	D3	WI	?	n/a
DePauw University	D3	IN	?	n/a
University of Virginia	D1	VA	?	$68,592