Which Mount Holyoke College major has the lowest debt?

International Relations graduates leave with a median of $18,486 in federal loans, the lowest among 12 Mount Holyoke College bachelor's programs that report debt.

How much does Mount Holyoke College cost?

Tuition and fees are $67,018 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $26,441 a year.

How many Mount Holyoke College programs report graduate pay?

13 bachelor's programs at Mount Holyoke College report first-year pay, and 12 of them also report federal debt.

Mount Holyoke College Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Private nonprofit college
South Hadley, MA
2,169 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

13 Mount Holyoke College bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Computer Science pays the most in the first year ($71,672), and Fine and Studio Arts the least ($18,420). The median program pays $26,013.

Tuition and fees$67,018Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$26,441Per year

Graduation rate84%Within 6 years

Admission rate36%Of applicants

All 13 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Massachusetts" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Massachusetts. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Massachusetts
1	Computer ScienceAbout 33 graduates a year	$71,672	Not reported	$21,500	15th of 20
2	Political ScienceAbout 31 graduates a year	$48,690	$66,447	$21,000	7th of 29
3	SociologyAbout 16 graduates a year	$40,675	Not reported	$21,000	5th of 20
4	BiologyAbout 58 graduates a year	$39,270	$51,299	$22,260	24th of 32
5	Experimental PsychologyAbout 69 graduates a year	$32,439	Not reported	$24,250	9th of 10
6	International RelationsAbout 26 graduates a year	$26,306	$73,787	$18,486	3rd of 3
7	Romance LanguagesAbout 33 graduates a year	$26,013	$54,680	$23,828	9th of 9
8	HistoryAbout 19 graduates a year	$23,337	$47,352	$23,250	20th of 20
9	Other Social SciencesGraduates a year not reported	$22,829	Not reported	Not reported	2nd of 2
10	Environmental Science and ConservationAbout 26 graduates a year	$22,791	$54,485	$21,500	15th of 16
11	EnglishAbout 37 graduates a year	$22,680	$42,639	$23,000	27th of 28
12	AnthropologyAbout 16 graduates a year	$19,655	Not reported	$21,178	6th of 6
13	Fine and Studio ArtsAbout 27 graduates a year	$18,420	Not reported	$23,447	13th of 16

Program names link to the program's own page, and Massachusetts ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Massachusetts programs in the field do too.

2 more bachelor's programs report debt but not pay, so they aren't listed.

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Lowest median debt

International Relations$18,486
Political Science$21,000
Sociology$21,000
Anthropology$21,178
Computer Science$21,500

Largest programs

Experimental PsychologyAbout 69 graduates a year
BiologyAbout 58 graduates a year
EnglishAbout 37 graduates a year
Computer ScienceAbout 33 graduates a year
Romance LanguagesAbout 33 graduates a year

Common questions

Computer Science graduates earn a median of $71,672 in their first year, the most of 13 Mount Holyoke College bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Massachusetts rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels