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Boston College Majors & Degree Programs

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• Highest Paid Majors
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Boston College Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 59 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 3,202 received undergraduate degrees and 1,721 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Boston College Majors List

Boston College offers [major_count] majors across {a number of|several} different {program areas|fields of study} including [top_program1], [top_program2] and [top_program3]. This list of majors offered by Boston College includes:

Major	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	Percent
Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Nursing	145	51	195	15.5%

Most Popular Boston College Program Areas

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Program Area	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	% of Total
Business, Sales & Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Health Care Professions	145	51	195	15.5%

The rest of this report will focus on the undergraduate program at Boston College. For more information on the graduate programs at Boston College please so our Boston College Graduate Programs Report.

Boston College Undergraduate Majors by Degree Level

Major	Certificate	Associate	Bachelors	Total
Marketing	0	125	684	789
Nursing	14	51	495	549

Boston College Bachelors Degree Concentrations

Concentration by Major	Females	%	Males	%	Total	% of Major
Marketing
Digital Marketing	12	17.1%	11	87.1%	125	17.1%
Nursing
Registered Nursing	81	57.1%	68	43.1%	111	94.4%

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
Economics	372	NA
Finance & Financial Management	348	NA
General Biology	231	NA
Political Science & Government	231	NA
Communication & Media Studies	168	NA
Marketing	135	NA
Computer Science	128	NA
General Psychology	127	NA
Accounting	121	NA
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	118	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Boston College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Boston College Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 59 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 3,202 received undergraduate degrees and 1,721 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
Economics	372	NA
Finance & Financial Management	348	NA
General Biology	231	NA
Political Science & Government	231	NA
Communication & Media Studies	168	NA
Marketing	135	NA
Computer Science	128	NA
General Psychology	127	NA
Accounting	121	NA
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	118	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Boston College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.