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Arizona State University Campus Immersion
Tempe, AZ 64,398 Undergrads 67.4% Grad Rate
Total Cost
$28,047
Sticker Price
Avg Net Price
$13,670
After Aid
Median Earnings
$62,668
10yr Post-Entry
Vs. Peer Institutions
Net Price$13,670
Peer Midpoint: $19,729.5
Earnings (10yr)$62,668
Peer Midpoint: $53,747
Graduation Rate67.4%
Peer Midpoint: 58.5%
Socio-Economic Diversity
Pell Grant Recipients30.7%
Enrollment Status
Full-Time92.5%
Economic Outcomes
Earn More than HS79.1%
Admissions Profile
Acceptance
90.2%
SAT Avg
-
SAT Reading
25th: --75th: -
SAT Math
25th: --75th: -
ACT Composite
25th: --75th: -
ROI Sensitivity Analysis
This analysis tests three cost scenarios (Scholarship, Average Net Price, Full Sticker Price) to show how college costs impact your long-term return compared to the average student and a high school graduate.
Lifetime Value Added (NPV)
Institution Lifetime NPV
Vs Median Peer
Vs HS Grad
Zero Cost (Scholarship)$0
+$538k
+$141k
+$53k
Median Cost$14k/yr
+$488k
+$92k
+$4k
Full Cost$28k/yr
+$437k
+$40k
-$48k
ROI Efficiency Metrics
Break-Even Age
Return on Inv. %
Zero Cost (Scholarship)$0
37
∞
Median Cost$14k/yr
60
8%
Full Cost$28k/yr
Never
-47%
Analysis Assumptions:
- Starting Salary: Estimated from the 10-year median earnings (assuming 2% annual growth from graduation).
- Comparisons: "Vs Median Peer" compares to the median student nationwide in a similar level program. "Vs HS Grad" compares to a median high school graduate.
- Break-Even: The age at which the college investment net income exceeds the median high school graduate's lifetime earnings.
- NPV: Net Present Value of all future earnings minus costs and taxes, discounted at 7.8%.
Social Impact ROINew
Measures the societal return on a donor's investment. Calculated as the incremental pre-tax lifetime earnings vs. HS grad, divided by the tax-adjusted donation cost.
Donor Return11%
Gov. Pell Grant ROINew
Measures the government's return on Pell Grants via increased tax revenue. Calculated as the portion of incremental lifetime taxes (discounted at 5.4%) attributed to the Pell Grant investment.
Taxpayer Return-50%
Important Note: Your ROI with any major will depend on the cost you pay to attend the program, and your starting salary. Both vary significantly across institutions. We encourage you to explore the ROI of a specific program variant by selecting the Program title of the credential level you are interested in. You will then have a more detailed return analysis for programs at specific institutions. We also encourage you to use the ROI calculator with your specific estimates of cost and salary.
Program ROI Analysis
Certificates
International Business
CertCIP: 5211
Median Debt
$16,559
Earnings (5yr)
$88,131
Lifetime Value Added
+$443k
Bachelor's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
BachCIP: 5203
Median Debt
$16,850
Earnings (5yr)
$82,689
Lifetime Value Added
+$165k
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
BachCIP: 1402
Median Debt
$25,390
Earnings (5yr)
$97,599
Lifetime Value Added
+$276k
Air Transportation
BachCIP: 4901
Median Debt
$21,375
Earnings (5yr)
$74,848
Lifetime Value Added
+$106k
Anthropology
BachCIP: 4502
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$54,391
Lifetime Value Added
-$52k
Applied Mathematics
BachCIP: 2703
Median Debt
$17,268
Earnings (5yr)
$80,371
Lifetime Value Added
+$148k
Architecture
BachCIP: 0402
Median Debt
$20,011
Earnings (5yr)
$66,030
Lifetime Value Added
+$40k
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
BachCIP: 2602
Median Debt
$18,750
Earnings (5yr)
$66,602
Lifetime Value Added
+$44k
Biology, General
BachCIP: 2601
Median Debt
$18,750
Earnings (5yr)
$58,703
Lifetime Value Added
-$18k
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
BachCIP: 1405
Median Debt
$21,000
Earnings (5yr)
$88,459
Lifetime Value Added
+$208k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
BachCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$20,490
Earnings (5yr)
$79,619
Lifetime Value Added
+$142k
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other
BachCIP: 5299
Median Debt
$18,750
Earnings (5yr)
$73,457
Lifetime Value Added
+$96k
Chemical Engineering
BachCIP: 1407
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$101,977
Lifetime Value Added
+$309k
Chemistry
BachCIP: 4005
Median Debt
$21,375
Earnings (5yr)
$55,428
Lifetime Value Added
-$44k
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
BachCIP: 0403
Median Debt
$23,444
Earnings (5yr)
$61,411
Lifetime Value Added
+$4k
Civil Engineering
BachCIP: 1408
Median Debt
$22,500
Earnings (5yr)
$87,208
Lifetime Value Added
+$199k
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
BachCIP: 4228
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$41,565
Lifetime Value Added
-$137k
Communication and Media Studies
BachCIP: 0901
Median Debt
$19,202
Earnings (5yr)
$62,225
Lifetime Value Added
+$10k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
BachCIP: 5102
Median Debt
$19,356
Earnings (5yr)
$56,764
Lifetime Value Added
-$33k
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other
BachCIP: 1199
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$49,644
Lifetime Value Added
-$66k
Computer and Information Sciences, General
BachCIP: 1101
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$97,416
Lifetime Value Added
+$275k
Computer Engineering
BachCIP: 1409
Median Debt
$25,000
Earnings (5yr)
$113,500
Lifetime Value Added
+$395k
Computer Science
BachCIP: 1107
Median Debt
$19,487
Earnings (5yr)
$109,476
Lifetime Value Added
+$365k
Computer Systems Analysis
BachCIP: 1105
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$52,107
Lifetime Value Added
-$45k
Construction Management
BachCIP: 5220
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$105,289
Lifetime Value Added
+$334k
Criminal Justice and Corrections
BachCIP: 4301
Median Debt
$20,151
Earnings (5yr)
$56,419
Lifetime Value Added
-$36k
Dance
BachCIP: 5003
Median Debt
$23,393
Earnings (5yr)
$48,294
Lifetime Value Added
-$102k
Design and Applied Arts
BachCIP: 5004
Median Debt
$20,702
Earnings (5yr)
$63,188
Lifetime Value Added
+$18k
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
BachCIP: 5005
Median Debt
$18,867
Earnings (5yr)
$33,590
Lifetime Value Added
-$226k
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1603
Median Debt
$18,500
Earnings (5yr)
$39,960
Lifetime Value Added
-$172k
Economics
BachCIP: 4506
Median Debt
$16,461
Earnings (5yr)
$74,632
Lifetime Value Added
+$104k
Education, Other
BachCIP: 1399
Median Debt
$22,250
Earnings (5yr)
$44,015
Lifetime Value Added
-$138k
Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians
BachCIP: 1503
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$62,260
Lifetime Value Added
+$40k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
BachCIP: 1410
Median Debt
$24,263
Earnings (5yr)
$102,932
Lifetime Value Added
+$316k
Engineering-Related Fields
BachCIP: 1515
Median Debt
$28,125
Earnings (5yr)
$107,203
Lifetime Value Added
+$348k
Engineering, General
BachCIP: 1401
Median Debt
$25,500
Earnings (5yr)
$98,096
Lifetime Value Added
+$280k
English Language and Literature, General
BachCIP: 2301
Median Debt
$21,375
Earnings (5yr)
$50,363
Lifetime Value Added
-$85k
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
BachCIP: 5207
Median Debt
$14,012
Earnings (2yr)
$38,289
Lifetime Value Added
-$166k
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
BachCIP: 1414
Median Debt
$19,725
Earnings (5yr)
$70,312
Lifetime Value Added
+$72k
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies
BachCIP: 0502
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$51,370
Lifetime Value Added
-$77k
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies
BachCIP: 1904
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$49,656
Lifetime Value Added
-$91k
Film/Video and Photographic Arts
BachCIP: 5006
Median Debt
$19,250
Earnings (5yr)
$48,485
Lifetime Value Added
-$101k
Finance and Financial Management Services
BachCIP: 5208
Median Debt
$17,250
Earnings (5yr)
$90,586
Lifetime Value Added
+$224k
Fine and Studio Arts
BachCIP: 5007
Median Debt
$19,983
Earnings (5yr)
$43,348
Lifetime Value Added
-$144k
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services
BachCIP: 1905
Median Debt
$21,583
Earnings (5yr)
$52,150
Lifetime Value Added
-$71k
Geography and Cartography
BachCIP: 4507
Median Debt
$24,293
Earnings (5yr)
$59,314
Lifetime Value Added
-$13k
Graphic Communications
BachCIP: 1003
Median Debt
$18,964
Earnings (5yr)
$54,254
Lifetime Value Added
-$53k
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
BachCIP: 3105
Median Debt
$18,500
Earnings (5yr)
$53,897
Lifetime Value Added
-$56k
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs
BachCIP: 5111
Median Debt
$22,935
Earnings (5yr)
$55,479
Lifetime Value Added
-$44k
History
BachCIP: 5401
Median Debt
$23,493
Earnings (5yr)
$50,922
Lifetime Value Added
-$81k
Hospitality Administration/Management
BachCIP: 5209
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$51,941
Lifetime Value Added
-$72k
Industrial Engineering
BachCIP: 1435
Median Debt
$19,189
Earnings (5yr)
$95,124
Lifetime Value Added
+$258k
Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians
BachCIP: 1506
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$67,164
Lifetime Value Added
+$79k
International/Global Studies
BachCIP: 3020
Median Debt
$18,750
Earnings (5yr)
$51,348
Lifetime Value Added
-$77k
Journalism
BachCIP: 0904
Median Debt
$18,340
Earnings (5yr)
$62,711
Lifetime Value Added
+$14k
Landscape Architecture
BachCIP: 0406
Median Debt
$21,751
Earnings (5yr)
$60,959
Lifetime Value Added
+$235
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
BachCIP: 2401
Median Debt
$23,300
Earnings (5yr)
$62,843
Lifetime Value Added
+$15k
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
BachCIP: 5213
Median Debt
$17,500
Earnings (5yr)
$101,034
Lifetime Value Added
+$302k
Marketing
BachCIP: 5214
Median Debt
$16,200
Earnings (5yr)
$80,113
Lifetime Value Added
+$146k
Materials Engineering
BachCIP: 1418
Median Debt
$23,557
Earnings (2yr)
$66,821
Lifetime Value Added
+$77k
Mathematics
BachCIP: 2701
Median Debt
$19,325
Earnings (5yr)
$84,496
Lifetime Value Added
+$178k
Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians
BachCIP: 1508
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$91,551
Lifetime Value Added
+$231k
Mechanical Engineering
BachCIP: 1419
Median Debt
$18,974
Earnings (5yr)
$94,295
Lifetime Value Added
+$252k
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
BachCIP: 2605
Median Debt
$18,268
Earnings (5yr)
$69,627
Lifetime Value Added
+$67k
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
BachCIP: 3099
Median Debt
$21,437
Earnings (5yr)
$63,362
Lifetime Value Added
+$19k
Music
BachCIP: 5009
Median Debt
$21,504
Earnings (5yr)
$27,211
Lifetime Value Added
-$281k
Natural Resources Conservation and Research
BachCIP: 0301
Median Debt
$18,463
Earnings (5yr)
$60,661
Lifetime Value Added
-$2k
Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Undergraduate)
BachCIP: 2200
Median Debt
$22,523
Earnings (5yr)
$61,817
Lifetime Value Added
+$7k
Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
BachCIP: 3101
Median Debt
$20,745
Earnings (5yr)
$56,982
Lifetime Value Added
-$31k
Philosophy
BachCIP: 3801
Median Debt
$24,188
Earnings (5yr)
$58,158
Lifetime Value Added
-$22k
Physical Sciences
BachCIP: 4001
Median Debt
$21,685
Earnings (5yr)
$64,606
Lifetime Value Added
+$29k
Physics
BachCIP: 4008
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$73,544
Lifetime Value Added
+$96k
Political Science and Government
BachCIP: 4510
Median Debt
$19,500
Earnings (5yr)
$68,231
Lifetime Value Added
+$56k
Psychology, General
BachCIP: 4201
Median Debt
$19,500
Earnings (5yr)
$52,287
Lifetime Value Added
-$69k
Public Policy Analysis
BachCIP: 4405
Median Debt
$19,500
Earnings (5yr)
$62,990
Lifetime Value Added
+$16k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
BachCIP: 5138
Median Debt
$21,892
Earnings (5yr)
$91,152
Lifetime Value Added
+$228k
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
BachCIP: 2313
Median Debt
$23,495
Earnings (5yr)
$63,437
Lifetime Value Added
+$20k
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1609
Median Debt
$20,329
Earnings (5yr)
$53,459
Lifetime Value Added
-$60k
Science Technologies/Technicians, Other
BachCIP: 4199
Median Debt
$22,366
Earnings (5yr)
$73,181
Lifetime Value Added
+$94k
Social Sciences, General
BachCIP: 4501
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$54,668
Lifetime Value Added
-$50k
Social Work
BachCIP: 4407
Median Debt
$17,750
Earnings (5yr)
$48,856
Lifetime Value Added
-$98k
Sociology
BachCIP: 4511
Median Debt
$21,984
Earnings (5yr)
$49,636
Lifetime Value Added
-$91k
Special Education and Teaching
BachCIP: 1310
Median Debt
$17,084
Earnings (5yr)
$53,261
Lifetime Value Added
-$61k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods
BachCIP: 1312
Median Debt
$16,238
Earnings (5yr)
$51,853
Lifetime Value Added
-$73k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
BachCIP: 1313
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$39,369
Lifetime Value Added
-$157k
Visual and Performing Arts, General
BachCIP: 5001
Median Debt
$21,480
Earnings (5yr)
$47,489
Lifetime Value Added
-$109k
Master's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
MastCIP: 5203
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$90,953
Lifetime Value Added
+$337k
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
MastCIP: 1402
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$117,792
Lifetime Value Added
+$567k
Agricultural Business and Management
MastCIP: 0101
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$110,371
Lifetime Value Added
+$503k
Architecture
MastCIP: 0402
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$78,094
Lifetime Value Added
+$226k
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
MastCIP: 1405
Median Debt
$22,548
Earnings (5yr)
$96,096
Lifetime Value Added
+$381k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
MastCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$47,828
Earnings (5yr)
$135,798
Lifetime Value Added
+$719k
Business/Commerce, General
MastCIP: 5201
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$68,021
Lifetime Value Added
+$139k
Chemical Engineering
MastCIP: 1407
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$120,590
Lifetime Value Added
+$590k
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
MastCIP: 0403
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$69,113
Lifetime Value Added
+$149k
Civil Engineering
MastCIP: 1408
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$97,892
Lifetime Value Added
+$396k
Communication and Media Studies
MastCIP: 0901
Median Debt
$26,250
Earnings (5yr)
$60,331
Lifetime Value Added
+$71k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
MastCIP: 5102
Median Debt
$41,000
Earnings (5yr)
$70,504
Lifetime Value Added
+$161k
Computer Science
MastCIP: 1107
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$139,405
Lifetime Value Added
+$750k
Criminal Justice and Corrections
MastCIP: 4301
Median Debt
$36,115
Earnings (5yr)
$67,190
Lifetime Value Added
+$132k
Curriculum and Instruction
MastCIP: 1303
Median Debt
$31,054
Earnings (5yr)
$65,150
Lifetime Value Added
+$114k
Design and Applied Arts
MastCIP: 5004
Median Debt
$60,449
Earnings (5yr)
$67,899
Lifetime Value Added
+$138k
Educational Administration and Supervision
MastCIP: 1304
Median Debt
$35,800
Earnings (5yr)
$66,596
Lifetime Value Added
+$127k
Educational/Instructional Media Design
MastCIP: 1305
Median Debt
$33,942
Earnings (2yr)
$57,189
Lifetime Value Added
+$74k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
MastCIP: 1410
Median Debt
$26,051
Earnings (5yr)
$121,937
Lifetime Value Added
+$602k
Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Other
MastCIP: 1599
Median Debt
$27,730
Earnings (5yr)
$77,064
Lifetime Value Added
+$217k
Engineering, General
MastCIP: 1401
Median Debt
$26,476
Earnings (5yr)
$104,294
Lifetime Value Added
+$451k
English Language and Literature, General
MastCIP: 2301
Median Debt
$34,898
Earnings (2yr)
$42,682
Lifetime Value Added
-$70k
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies
MastCIP: 1904
Median Debt
$35,340
Earnings (5yr)
$56,495
Lifetime Value Added
+$36k
Finance and Financial Management Services
MastCIP: 5208
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$76,460
Lifetime Value Added
+$252k
Fine and Studio Arts
MastCIP: 5007
Median Debt
$61,500
Earnings (5yr)
$41,170
Lifetime Value Added
-$110k
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services
MastCIP: 1905
Median Debt
$29,120
Earnings (5yr)
$59,855
Lifetime Value Added
+$66k
Geography and Cartography
MastCIP: 4507
Median Debt
$30,093
Earnings (2yr)
$54,713
Lifetime Value Added
+$50k
History
MastCIP: 5401
Median Debt
$38,969
Earnings (5yr)
$63,033
Lifetime Value Added
+$95k
Homeland Security
MastCIP: 4303
Median Debt
$37,336
Earnings (5yr)
$90,117
Lifetime Value Added
+$329k
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services
MastCIP: 1907
Median Debt
$56,050
Earnings (5yr)
$51,907
Lifetime Value Added
-$7k
Industrial Engineering
MastCIP: 1435
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$121,778
Lifetime Value Added
+$601k
International Business
MastCIP: 5211
Median Debt
$57,553
Earnings (5yr)
$112,371
Lifetime Value Added
+$520k
Journalism
MastCIP: 0904
Median Debt
$35,778
Earnings (5yr)
$69,108
Lifetime Value Added
+$149k
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies
MastCIP: 2202
Median Debt
$53,770
Earnings (5yr)
$81,196
Lifetime Value Added
+$253k
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
MastCIP: 2401
Median Debt
$53,262
Earnings (5yr)
$63,909
Lifetime Value Added
+$103k
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
MastCIP: 5213
Median Debt
$33,647
Earnings (5yr)
$130,574
Lifetime Value Added
+$675k
Mechanical Engineering
MastCIP: 1419
Median Debt
$14,524
Earnings (5yr)
$109,019
Lifetime Value Added
+$492k
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General
MastCIP: 3000
Median Debt
$55,556
Earnings (5yr)
$61,002
Lifetime Value Added
+$77k
Music
MastCIP: 5009
Median Debt
$40,760
Earnings (5yr)
$28,025
Lifetime Value Added
-$239k
Natural Resources Conservation and Research
MastCIP: 0301
Median Debt
$39,313
Earnings (5yr)
$75,879
Lifetime Value Added
+$207k
Public Administration
MastCIP: 4404
Median Debt
$49,306
Earnings (5yr)
$76,572
Lifetime Value Added
+$213k
Public Health
MastCIP: 5122
Median Debt
$32,995
Earnings (5yr)
$84,190
Lifetime Value Added
+$278k
Real Estate Development
MastCIP: 0410
Median Debt
$52,846
Earnings (5yr)
$100,021
Lifetime Value Added
+$414k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
MastCIP: 5138
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$75,518
Lifetime Value Added
+$244k
Social Work
MastCIP: 4407
Median Debt
$51,901
Earnings (5yr)
$60,407
Lifetime Value Added
+$71k
Special Education and Teaching
MastCIP: 1310
Median Debt
$30,750
Earnings (5yr)
$56,460
Lifetime Value Added
+$35k
Student Counseling and Personnel Services
MastCIP: 1311
Median Debt
$55,466
Earnings (5yr)
$68,536
Lifetime Value Added
+$144k
Taxation
MastCIP: 5216
Median Debt
$23,911
Earnings (5yr)
$102,512
Lifetime Value Added
+$436k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods
MastCIP: 1312
Median Debt
$20,443
Earnings (5yr)
$61,195
Lifetime Value Added
+$79k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
MastCIP: 1313
Median Debt
$35,654
Earnings (5yr)
$74,485
Lifetime Value Added
+$195k
Doctoral Degrees
Anthropology
DocCIP: 4502
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$48,432
Lifetime Value Added
-$115k
Applied Mathematics
DocCIP: 2703
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$114,741
Lifetime Value Added
+$354k
Civil Engineering
DocCIP: 1408
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$76,460
Lifetime Value Added
+$109k
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
DocCIP: 4228
Median Debt
$111,811
Earnings (5yr)
$75,447
Lifetime Value Added
+$68k
Communication and Media Studies
DocCIP: 0901
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$72,796
Lifetime Value Added
+$81k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
DocCIP: 5102
Median Debt
$137,833
Earnings (5yr)
$103,550
Lifetime Value Added
+$273k
Curriculum and Instruction
DocCIP: 1303
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$70,456
Lifetime Value Added
+$63k
Education, General
DocCIP: 1301
Median Debt
$66,553
Earnings (5yr)
$93,596
Lifetime Value Added
+$200k
Educational Administration and Supervision
DocCIP: 1304
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$67,660
Lifetime Value Added
+$41k
English Language and Literature, General
DocCIP: 2301
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$67,088
Lifetime Value Added
+$7k
Law
DocCIP: 2201
Median Debt
$100,564
Earnings (5yr)
$106,558
Lifetime Value Added
+$295k
Music
DocCIP: 5009
Median Debt
$62,503
Earnings (5yr)
$46,879
Lifetime Value Added
-$151k
Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Undergraduate)
DocCIP: 2200
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$57,318
Lifetime Value Added
-$41k
Psychology, General
DocCIP: 4201
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$91,023
Lifetime Value Added
+$181k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
DocCIP: 5138
Median Debt
$89,135
Earnings (5yr)
$135,303
Lifetime Value Added
+$503k
Note: Lifetime Value Added is the Net Present Value (NPV) of estimated career earnings relative to a median high school graduate, accounting for this institution's average cost and taxes. Computed over a career to retirement age.
For graduate programs (Master's, Doctoral, etc.), the calculation assumes a starting age of 22 (after undergraduate completion) and does not include the sunk costs of prior degrees. It represents the value added of the graduate degree decision moving forward. These Lifetime Value Added results should not be compared with those Undergraduate Certificates, Associates or Bachelors starting at age 18.