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Top Majors at SUNY Cortland

NY · Ranked by 5-year median salary · 26 majors with data

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# Major Year 1 Year 5 Median Year 10
1 Business/Managerial Economics $42,184 $69,943 $92,210
2 Special Education and Teaching $39,932 $69,527 $73,622
3 Biology, General $33,710 $67,536 $86,609
4 Communication Disorders Sciences and Services $27,073 $66,839 $73,614
5 Teacher Education, Specific Subject Areas $36,285 $66,741 $76,540
6 Mathematics $34,751 $66,619 $76,015
7 Teaching English or French as a Second Language $36,674 $65,986 $79,787
8 Criminology $36,412 $65,514 $83,086
9 Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics $34,057 $63,522 $68,802
10 Political Science and Government $35,459 $63,044 $79,787
11 Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences $44,549 $62,322 $83,557
12 Communication and Media Studies $37,717 $61,332 $79,855
13 Geography and Cartography $37,341 $61,085 $79,444
14 Public Health $32,690 $60,590 $78,529
15 International Relations and National Security Studies $34,162 $60,342 $75,329
16 Teacher Education, Specific Levels and Methods $31,949 $60,256 $66,613
17 History $32,918 $59,278 $74,577
18 Health and Physical Education/Fitness $32,094 $58,684 $76,891
19 Sociology $34,073 $55,464 $66,091
20 Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions $30,751 $54,652 $72,989

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Data sources: US Census Bureau Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). Cost-of-living index: BLS Regional CPI & MIT Living Wage Project. Cost of attendance: IPEDS. For informational use only; data may be suppressed for small cohort sizes.