From Student Data to Career Insights: How Datastam.ai Makes Educational Data Easy to Understand

By abhishek.verma75000 · August 7, 2026

Choosing the right college major is one of the most important decisions for students. But with so much information available, it can be difficult to…

Medicine commands the highest average salary at $155,000, followed by Artificial Intelligence at $128,000 and Information Technology at $118,000. A bar chart ranks the top 10 majors by average salary from highest to lowest.

The Medical department has the strongest average employment rate at 99.0%, making it the top-performing department in this metric.

Medicine has the highest employment rate at 99%, followed closely by Artificial Intelligence at 98% and Information Technology at 97%. These three majors lead the pack, showing that healthcare and tech-related fields currently offer the strongest job placement outcomes.

Average salaries vary significantly across the four departments. Medical has the highest average salary at $155,000, followed by Management at $110,000, Engineering at $94,500, and Business at $92,000. The gap between the highest and lowest paying departments is $63,000.

Yes, majors with higher employment rates do tend to earn higher salaries. The data shows a strong positive correlation (0.88) between employment rate and average salary across majors, meaning these two factors move together fairly closely.

Medicine offers the best combination of high salary and strong employment, scoring 100 out of 100 on our value scale with a $155,000 average salary and 99% employment rate. It's followed by Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Administration, and Data Science as other strong value picks.

Employment Rate % averages 94.2% (median 94.5%) with a small spread — ranging from 88% to 99%, a range of just 11 points, and a low standard deviation of 3.52. Average Salary USD shows much more variation: the mean is $101,600 but the median is lower at $95,000, with values ranging from $71,000 to $155,000 (a range of $84,000) and a high standard deviation of $26,272.93. This tells us employment rates are fairly consistent across students, while salaries vary widely.

Using the IQR method on Average Salary USD, no majors were found to be statistical outliers. The 25th percentile (Q1) is $83,000 and the 75th percentile (Q3) is $116,000, giving an IQR of $33,000. This sets the acceptable range between $33,500 (lower bound) and $165,500 (upper bound). Since every major's average salary falls within this range, there are no unusually high or low salaries compared to the rest of the dataset.

All 10 students were ranked separately by average salary and by employment rate, then compared. The biggest mismatches were small: Student 1001 (Computer Science), Student 1002 (Data Science), and Student 1006 (Finance) each showed a discrepancy of 2 ranks between their salary standing and employment rate standing. Meanwhile, half the students (1003, 1004, 1008, 1009, 1010) had identical rankings in both categories, meaning their salary and employment rate standings match perfectly.

Employment rates across students range from 88% to 99%, a spread of 11 percentage points. The average is 94.2% and the median is 94.5%, with a standard deviation of 3.52. The skewness value of -0.42 indicates the distribution is approximately symmetric, with a slight lean toward lower values. A histogram and box plot were generated to visualize this spread, showing that most students have employment rates concentrated in the high 80s to high 90s range, without extreme outliers.