Top Ranked Programs
College of the Holy Cross's program mix is anchored in Social Sciences, a signature consistent with the college's liberal arts identity and its emphasis on analytical, humanistic, and policy-oriented fields. The three largest program families by graduate share are Social Sciences (29%), other STEM fields (5%), and Arts (4%), a distribution that places College of the Holy Cross closer to peer liberal arts colleges with strong humanities and social-science concentrations than to engineering-heavy research universities. Across 26 programs serving roughly 930 students annually, 13 meet Azimuth's ranking threshold. The program with the highest aggregate return — combining cohort scale with strong median earnings — is Economics, which functions as a key economic anchor for the college's degree output. Among the most popular programs, Psychology, General program graduates 132 students with median earnings of $74,095 four years after enrollment; Azimuth ranks it #4 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Economics and Political Science follow in scale, with graduates earning $118,131 and $88,088 respectively at the four-year mark, reflecting the college's strength in fields that feed into finance, consulting, law, and public-sector careers. The highest-earning programs at College of the Holy Cross are Economics, Mathematics, and Biology, General, with graduates earning median earnings of $118,131, $96,927, and $92,914 four years after enrollment; Azimuth ranks Economics #30 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Several of these high-earning pathways — particularly those in economics, mathematics, and quantitative social sciences — are also grad-school-dependent in part, meaning four-year earnings undercount the long-run trajectory for graduates who continue to law school, MBA programs, or doctoral study. The [supply and demand for college graduates](/analysis/supply-demand-map-college-degrees/) provides context for how these program families align with national labor-market trends.