Which college majors currently offer the best return on investment for students graduating in the next few years?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Which college majors currently offer the best return on investment for students graduating in the next few years?
6 real searches · 1 real-search pass
college majors highest return on investment 2025 2026 earnings debt engineering computer science nursing actuarial economics data science reportGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDComparison
New York Fed labor market outcomes by college major unemployment underemployment wages 2025Google ↗
OBSERVEDConsequence
BLS occupational outlook 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations software data healthcare engineering 2025Google ↗
OBSERVEDComparison
2026 best college majors return on investment earnings by major latest dataGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
2025 2026 college majors highest return on investment earnings unemployment major data New York Fed Census Georgetown ROIGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
BLS employment projections 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations healthcare engineering data science software 2025Google ↗
OBSERVEDComparison
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (6)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 6 of 6 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT6 real searches · gpt-6
college majors highest return on investment 2025 2026 earnings debt engineering computer science nursing actuarial economics data science report Google ↗
New York Fed labor market outcomes by college major unemployment underemployment wages 2025 Google ↗
BLS occupational outlook 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations software data healthcare engineering 2025 Google ↗
2026 best college majors return on investment earnings by major latest data Google ↗
2025 2026 college majors highest return on investment earnings unemployment major data New York Fed Census Georgetown ROI Google ↗
BLS employment projections 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations healthcare engineering data science software 2025 Google ↗
- Education Pays 2026 · research.collegeboard.org
- Ranked: College Degrees by 10-Year Earnings and ROI · visualcapitalist.com
- College Majors and Earnings Growth · census.gov
Semantic map
Every query placed by meaning (EmbeddingGemma 2, 256-d). Shaded regions are topics, nearby points are near-paraphrases, and a circle's size is how often the query came back.
Colour
SimulatedReal search
Hover a query to see its counterpart · zoom with Ctrl/⌘ + scroll, a pinch, double-click or +
Queries
6 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
college majors highest return on investment 2025 2026 earnings debt engineering computer science nursing actuarial economics data science report OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Comparison | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
New York Fed labor market outcomes by college major unemployment underemployment wages 2025 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Consequence | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
BLS occupational outlook 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations software data healthcare engineering 2025 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Comparison | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
2026 best college majors return on investment earnings by major latest data OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
2025 2026 college majors highest return on investment earnings unemployment major data New York Fed Census Georgetown ROI OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
BLS employment projections 2024 2034 fastest growing occupations healthcare engineering data science software 2025 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Comparison | — | — | 1x of 1 |