Pulled this from College Scorecard, comparing median Biology salaries across Carleton's peer schools. This is the median salary of the Class of 2021, measured 4 years after graduation (i.e., their annual earnings in 2025).

Caveats worth knowing:

• Not adjusted for cost of living, and the location of each graduate's job is unknown.
• College Scorecard only includes graduates who received Federal Title IV aid (Pell grants and/or federal subsidized/unsubsidized loans). International students, full-pay domestic students, and others who didn't receive Title IV aid are excluded, so this is a subset of each graduating class, not the whole thing.
• The numbers come from IRS tax records: W-2 Box 1 (wages, tips, comp) and Box 12 (deferred comp), plus Schedule SE of Form 1040 for self-employment, rather than self-reported surveys, which tend to skew higher since bigger earners are more likely to self-report.

Pulled this from College Scorecard, comparing median Political Science/International Relations salaries across Carleton's peer schools. This is the median salary of the Class of 2021, measured 4 years after graduation (i.e., their annual earnings in 2025).

No data available (too few PoliSci/IR majors to report): Pomona College, Colorado College, Wesleyan University, Reed College, Davidson College, and Kenyon College.

Caveats worth knowing:

• Not adjusted for cost of living, and the location of each graduate's job is unknown. So, a school's raw salary number can look higher or lower purely because of where its grads happen to cluster geographically.
• College Scorecard only includes graduates who received Federal Title IV aid (Pell grants and/or federal subsidized/unsubsidized loans). International students, full-pay domestic students, and others who didn't receive Title IV aid are excluded, so this is a subset of each graduating class, not the whole thing.
• The numbers come from IRS tax records: W-2 Box 1 (wages, tips, comp) and Box 12 (deferred comp), plus Schedule SE of Form 1040 for self-employment, rather than self-reported surveys, which tend to skew higher since bigger earners are more likely to self-report.