Business & management

Human Resources Management and Services

Harvard University · Cambridge, MA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$59,076Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$16,638Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$85,514
Same subject · national$44,180
Business & management · national$42,682

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $72,663–$88,417.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Stanford UniversityEconomics$85,391
Columbia University in the City of New YorkEconomics$79,419
Yale UniversityEconomics$86,621
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBusiness/Commerce, General, Economics$102,643
Princeton UniversityEconomics$103,078
University of ChicagoEconomics$85,637
Brown UniversityEconomics, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$68,536
University of PennsylvaniaBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Economics, Finance and Financial Management Services, Marketing$72,840
Northeastern UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Business/Commerce, General, Economics, Finance and Financial Management Services, International Business$60,046
Vanderbilt UniversityEconomics$72,134
Duke UniversityEconomics$90,856
Dartmouth CollegeEconomics$87,604
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗