The Return to Majors at UW–Madison

Junjie Guo, Kim Ruhl and Ananth Seshadri

Executive Summary:

The second white paper in the series estimates the value of different majors at UW–Madison. The report  estimates that while Computer Science and Business majors enjoy the highest returns, Education, Area/Ethnic/Cultural/Gender studies majors experience low returns. Some of the low return majors have an internal rate of return below the interest rate.