Genetics
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Early Career Income
$80,096
Lifetime Income
$4.92M
Unemployment rate
2.1%
Female share
56.4%
Occupation concentration
52.8%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
23.5%
% who double-major
39.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
740
+0.3% vs 2023
How Genetics compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
77th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 77% of majors
71st
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 71% of majors
69th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 69% of majors
Top occupations
- Physicians and Surgeons
- Physical Scientists, All Other
- Medical scientists, and life scientists, all other
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Genetics.
- Genetics, General
- Molecular Genetics
- Microbial and Eukaryotic Genetics
- Animal Genetics
- Plant Genetics
- Human/Medical Genetics
- Genome Sciences/Genomics
- Genetics, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology