Which WashU major has the lowest debt?

Biology graduates leave with a median of $13,500 in federal loans, the lowest among 14 WashU bachelor's programs that report debt.

How much does WashU cost?

Tuition and fees are $65,790 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $21,786 a year.

How many WashU programs report graduate pay?

17 bachelor's programs at WashU report first-year pay, and 14 of them also report federal debt.

WashU Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Washington University in St Louis
Private nonprofit university
St. Louis, MO
7,857 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

17 WashU bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Computer Science pays the most in the first year ($110,302), and Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies the least ($16,635). The median program pays $66,325.

Tuition and fees$65,790Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$21,786Per year

Graduation rate94%Within 6 years

Admission rate12%Of applicants

All 17 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Missouri" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Missouri. 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 Missouri
1	Computer ScienceAbout 181 graduates a year	$110,302	Not reported	$15,500	1st of 8
2	Business EconomicsAbout 47 graduates a year	$106,701	Not reported	Not reported	1st of 2
3	FinanceAbout 150 graduates a year	$102,814	$190,811	$19,250	1st of 9
4	Systems EngineeringAbout 21 graduates a year	$83,874	Not reported	$20,500	1st of 1
5	MathematicsAbout 66 graduates a year	$79,799	Not reported	$18,700	1st of 4
6	Mechanical EngineeringAbout 103 graduates a year	$72,057	$101,263	$19,000	3rd of 6
7	MarketingAbout 72 graduates a year	$70,819	Not reported	$17,500	1st of 10
8	Chemical EngineeringAbout 28 graduates a year	$69,801	Not reported	$19,500	3rd of 3
9	EconomicsAbout 118 graduates a year	$66,325	$79,278	$14,110	1st of 5
10	International StudiesAbout 50 graduates a year	$38,854	Not reported	$20,250	1st of 3
11	Experimental PsychologyAbout 169 graduates a year	$37,377	Not reported	$15,450	2nd of 5
12	AnthropologyAbout 92 graduates a year	$34,489	Not reported	$15,000	1st of 4
13	Design and Applied ArtsAbout 69 graduates a year	$33,615	Not reported	$19,089	6th of 8
14	Cognitive ScienceAbout 64 graduates a year	$30,996	Not reported	$17,500	1st of 1
15	Area StudiesAbout 27 graduates a year	$30,716	Not reported	Not reported	2nd of 2
16	BiologyAbout 83 graduates a year	$24,925	$76,908	$13,500	21st of 21
17	Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender StudiesAbout 25 graduates a year	$16,635	Not reported	Not reported	1st of 1

Program names link to the program's own page, and Missouri 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 Missouri programs in the field do too.

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

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Computer Science$110,302
Business Economics$106,701
Finance$102,814
Systems Engineering$83,874
Mathematics$79,799

Lowest median debt

Biology$13,500
Economics$14,110
Anthropology$15,000
Experimental Psychology$15,450
Computer Science$15,500

Largest programs

Computer ScienceAbout 181 graduates a year
Experimental PsychologyAbout 169 graduates a year
FinanceAbout 150 graduates a year
EconomicsAbout 118 graduates a year
Mechanical EngineeringAbout 103 graduates a year

Common questions

Computer Science graduates earn a median of $110,302 in their first year, the most of 17 WashU 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 Missouri 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