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University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 34,102 Undergrads 89.3% Grad Rate
Total Cost
$21,719
Sticker Price
Avg Net Price
$6,351
After Aid
Median Earnings
$71,588
10yr Post-Entry
Vs. Peer Institutions
Net Price$6,351
Peer Midpoint: $19,729.5
Earnings (10yr)$71,588
Peer Midpoint: $53,747
Graduation Rate89.3%
Peer Midpoint: 58.5%
Socio-Economic Diversity
Pell Grant Recipients22.6%
Enrollment Status
Full-Time91.6%
Economic Outcomes
Earn More than HS80.4%
Admissions Profile
Acceptance
24.0%
SAT Avg
1,397
SAT Reading
25th: 65068575th: 730
SAT Math
25th: 65070075th: 750
ACT Composite
25th: 283175th: 33
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
+$605k
+$208k
+$120k
Median Cost$6k/yr
+$582k
+$185k
+$97k
Full Cost$22k/yr
+$527k
+$130k
+$42k
ROI Efficiency Metrics
Break-Even Age
Return on Inv. %
Zero Cost (Scholarship)$0
31
∞
Median Cost$6k/yr
34
426%
Full Cost$22k/yr
45
54%
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 Return200%
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 Return9%
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
Bachelor's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
BachCIP: 5203
Median Debt
$17,750
Earnings (5yr)
$88,563
Lifetime Value Added
+$235k
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
BachCIP: 1402
Median Debt
$17,416
Earnings (5yr)
$100,208
Lifetime Value Added
+$322k
Agricultural Business and Management
BachCIP: 0101
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$63,554
Lifetime Value Added
+$47k
Agricultural Engineering
BachCIP: 1403
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$46,478
Lifetime Value Added
-$67k
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
BachCIP: 5109
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$49,057
Lifetime Value Added
-$70k
Animal Sciences
BachCIP: 0109
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$51,450
Lifetime Value Added
-$50k
Anthropology
BachCIP: 4502
Median Debt
$14,491
Earnings (5yr)
$53,927
Lifetime Value Added
-$30k
Architecture
BachCIP: 0402
Median Debt
$18,953
Earnings (5yr)
$62,177
Lifetime Value Added
+$36k
Biological/Biosystems Engineering
BachCIP: 1445
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$75,981
Lifetime Value Added
+$141k
Biology, General
BachCIP: 2601
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$66,170
Lifetime Value Added
+$67k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
BachCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$73,834
Lifetime Value Added
+$125k
Chemical Engineering
BachCIP: 1407
Median Debt
$19,600
Earnings (5yr)
$104,630
Lifetime Value Added
+$355k
Chemistry
BachCIP: 4005
Median Debt
$14,824
Earnings (5yr)
$62,885
Lifetime Value Added
+$42k
Civil Engineering
BachCIP: 1408
Median Debt
$18,609
Earnings (5yr)
$87,493
Lifetime Value Added
+$227k
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1612
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$48,957
Lifetime Value Added
-$70k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
BachCIP: 5102
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$59,252
Lifetime Value Added
+$13k
Computer and Information Sciences, General
BachCIP: 1101
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$128,097
Lifetime Value Added
+$530k
Computer Engineering
BachCIP: 1409
Median Debt
$20,447
Earnings (5yr)
$114,942
Lifetime Value Added
+$432k
Construction Engineering Technologies
BachCIP: 1510
Median Debt
$14,869
Earnings (5yr)
$112,831
Lifetime Value Added
+$416k
Criminology
BachCIP: 4504
Median Debt
$15,224
Earnings (5yr)
$61,030
Lifetime Value Added
+$27k
Dance
BachCIP: 5003
Median Debt
$15,951
Earnings (5yr)
$21,714
Lifetime Value Added
-$303k
Design and Applied Arts
BachCIP: 5004
Median Debt
$19,839
Earnings (5yr)
$73,474
Lifetime Value Added
+$122k
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
BachCIP: 5005
Median Debt
$13,750
Earnings (5yr)
$35,412
Lifetime Value Added
-$184k
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1603
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$54,041
Lifetime Value Added
-$29k
Economics
BachCIP: 4506
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$79,677
Lifetime Value Added
+$169k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
BachCIP: 1410
Median Debt
$20,650
Earnings (5yr)
$104,143
Lifetime Value Added
+$352k
English Language and Literature, General
BachCIP: 2301
Median Debt
$15,591
Earnings (5yr)
$53,428
Lifetime Value Added
-$34k
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
BachCIP: 1414
Median Debt
$21,000
Earnings (5yr)
$74,218
Lifetime Value Added
+$128k
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies
BachCIP: 0502
Median Debt
$22,692
Earnings (5yr)
$52,141
Lifetime Value Added
-$44k
Finance and Financial Management Services
BachCIP: 5208
Median Debt
$16,681
Earnings (5yr)
$101,867
Lifetime Value Added
+$335k
Fine and Studio Arts
BachCIP: 5007
Median Debt
$16,046
Earnings (5yr)
$28,324
Lifetime Value Added
-$245k
Food Science and Technology
BachCIP: 0110
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$73,595
Lifetime Value Added
+$123k
Forestry
BachCIP: 0305
Median Debt
$15,500
Earnings (5yr)
$48,054
Lifetime Value Added
-$78k
Geography and Cartography
BachCIP: 4507
Median Debt
$16,407
Earnings (5yr)
$56,172
Lifetime Value Added
-$12k
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
BachCIP: 4006
Median Debt
$19,737
Earnings (5yr)
$53,189
Lifetime Value Added
-$36k
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
BachCIP: 3105
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$57,216
Lifetime Value Added
-$3k
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General
BachCIP: 5100
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$81,169
Lifetime Value Added
+$180k
History
BachCIP: 5401
Median Debt
$16,896
Earnings (5yr)
$57,470
Lifetime Value Added
-$1k
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services
BachCIP: 1907
Median Debt
$15,523
Earnings (5yr)
$50,041
Lifetime Value Added
-$62k
International/Global Studies
BachCIP: 3020
Median Debt
$11,625
Earnings (5yr)
$64,698
Lifetime Value Added
+$56k
Journalism
BachCIP: 0904
Median Debt
$16,454
Earnings (5yr)
$58,392
Lifetime Value Added
+$6k
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services
BachCIP: 1601
Median Debt
$17,758
Earnings (5yr)
$48,373
Lifetime Value Added
-$75k
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
BachCIP: 5213
Median Debt
$18,625
Earnings (5yr)
$100,320
Lifetime Value Added
+$323k
Marketing
BachCIP: 5214
Median Debt
$15,250
Earnings (5yr)
$80,633
Lifetime Value Added
+$176k
Materials Engineering
BachCIP: 1418
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$86,081
Lifetime Value Added
+$217k
Mathematics
BachCIP: 2701
Median Debt
$16,111
Earnings (5yr)
$86,226
Lifetime Value Added
+$218k
Mechanical Engineering
BachCIP: 1419
Median Debt
$18,131
Earnings (5yr)
$94,291
Lifetime Value Added
+$278k
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
BachCIP: 2605
Median Debt
$14,942
Earnings (5yr)
$60,469
Lifetime Value Added
+$23k
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
BachCIP: 3099
Median Debt
$14,800
Earnings (5yr)
$67,069
Lifetime Value Added
+$74k
Music
BachCIP: 5009
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$40,213
Lifetime Value Added
-$144k
Natural Resources Conservation and Research
BachCIP: 0301
Median Debt
$20,200
Earnings (5yr)
$53,912
Lifetime Value Added
-$30k
Nuclear Engineering
BachCIP: 1423
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$112,160
Lifetime Value Added
+$411k
Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management
BachCIP: 3103
Median Debt
$16,172
Earnings (5yr)
$52,792
Lifetime Value Added
-$39k
Philosophy
BachCIP: 3801
Median Debt
$17,413
Earnings (5yr)
$69,827
Lifetime Value Added
+$95k
Physics
BachCIP: 4008
Median Debt
$13,750
Earnings (5yr)
$71,362
Lifetime Value Added
+$106k
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences
BachCIP: 2609
Median Debt
$16,776
Earnings (5yr)
$66,875
Lifetime Value Added
+$72k
Plant Sciences
BachCIP: 0111
Median Debt
$13,015
Earnings (5yr)
$46,390
Lifetime Value Added
-$92k
Political Science and Government
BachCIP: 4510
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$70,551
Lifetime Value Added
+$100k
Psychology, General
BachCIP: 4201
Median Debt
$16,598
Earnings (5yr)
$57,099
Lifetime Value Added
-$4k
Public Health
BachCIP: 5122
Median Debt
$15,454
Earnings (5yr)
$66,251
Lifetime Value Added
+$68k
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
BachCIP: 0909
Median Debt
$15,321
Earnings (5yr)
$72,397
Lifetime Value Added
+$114k
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication
BachCIP: 0907
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$57,845
Lifetime Value Added
+$2k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
BachCIP: 5138
Median Debt
$16,500
Earnings (5yr)
$77,478
Lifetime Value Added
+$152k
Religion/Religious Studies
BachCIP: 3802
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$44,263
Lifetime Value Added
-$110k
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1609
Median Debt
$13,000
Earnings (5yr)
$61,423
Lifetime Value Added
+$30k
Sociology
BachCIP: 4511
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$51,030
Lifetime Value Added
-$53k
Statistics
BachCIP: 2705
Median Debt
$13,191
Earnings (5yr)
$92,382
Lifetime Value Added
+$264k
Sustainability Studies
BachCIP: 3033
Median Debt
$15,000
Earnings (5yr)
$62,552
Lifetime Value Added
+$39k
Systems Engineering
BachCIP: 1427
Median Debt
$19,750
Earnings (5yr)
$108,020
Lifetime Value Added
+$381k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods
BachCIP: 1312
Median Debt
$14,757
Earnings (2yr)
$41,007
Lifetime Value Added
-$116k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
BachCIP: 1313
Median Debt
$13,650
Earnings (5yr)
$51,336
Lifetime Value Added
-$51k
Visual and Performing Arts, General
BachCIP: 5001
Median Debt
$18,657
Earnings (2yr)
$48,041
Lifetime Value Added
-$54k
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management
BachCIP: 0306
Median Debt
$16,500
Earnings (5yr)
$39,946
Lifetime Value Added
-$146k
Zoology/Animal Biology
BachCIP: 2607
Median Debt
$17,603
Earnings (5yr)
$58,561
Lifetime Value Added
+$8k
Master's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
MastCIP: 5203
Median Debt
$20,732
Earnings (5yr)
$110,436
Lifetime Value Added
+$517k
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences
MastCIP: 5105
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$271,873
Lifetime Value Added
+$1849k
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
MastCIP: 5109
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$131,440
Lifetime Value Added
+$696k
Architecture
MastCIP: 0402
Median Debt
$44,685
Earnings (5yr)
$72,791
Lifetime Value Added
+$194k
Area Studies
MastCIP: 0501
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$26,896
Lifetime Value Added
-$220k
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
MastCIP: 1405
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$102,292
Lifetime Value Added
+$447k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
MastCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$38,383
Earnings (5yr)
$130,196
Lifetime Value Added
+$685k
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
MastCIP: 0403
Median Debt
$41,000
Earnings (5yr)
$76,806
Lifetime Value Added
+$228k
Civil Engineering
MastCIP: 1408
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$100,137
Lifetime Value Added
+$429k
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
MastCIP: 4228
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$52,941
Lifetime Value Added
+$46k
Communication and Media Studies
MastCIP: 0901
Median Debt
$29,671
Earnings (5yr)
$74,884
Lifetime Value Added
+$212k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
MastCIP: 5102
Median Debt
$41,000
Earnings (5yr)
$69,792
Lifetime Value Added
+$168k
Computer Engineering
MastCIP: 1409
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$134,558
Lifetime Value Added
+$722k
Computer Systems Analysis
MastCIP: 1105
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$118,505
Lifetime Value Added
+$586k
Construction Engineering Technologies
MastCIP: 1510
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$102,552
Lifetime Value Added
+$450k
Curriculum and Instruction
MastCIP: 1303
Median Debt
$29,111
Earnings (5yr)
$65,225
Lifetime Value Added
+$128k
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
MastCIP: 5005
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$26,739
Lifetime Value Added
-$222k
Educational Administration and Supervision
MastCIP: 1304
Median Debt
$41,000
Earnings (5yr)
$72,931
Lifetime Value Added
+$195k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
MastCIP: 1410
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$90,146
Lifetime Value Added
+$390k
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
MastCIP: 5207
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$71,245
Lifetime Value Added
+$181k
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
MastCIP: 1414
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$96,604
Lifetime Value Added
+$399k
Finance and Financial Management Services
MastCIP: 5208
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$142,122
Lifetime Value Added
+$786k
Fine and Studio Arts
MastCIP: 5007
Median Debt
$46,536
Earnings (5yr)
$46,870
Lifetime Value Added
-$41k
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management
MastCIP: 0303
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$45,715
Lifetime Value Added
-$26k
Food Science and Technology
MastCIP: 0110
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$77,336
Lifetime Value Added
+$233k
Forestry
MastCIP: 0305
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$75,601
Lifetime Value Added
+$218k
Health and Medical Administrative Services
MastCIP: 5107
Median Debt
$54,485
Earnings (5yr)
$105,472
Lifetime Value Added
+$475k
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
MastCIP: 3105
Median Debt
$31,447
Earnings (5yr)
$69,717
Lifetime Value Added
+$167k
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services
MastCIP: 1907
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$34,711
Lifetime Value Added
-$139k
Landscape Architecture
MastCIP: 0406
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$51,690
Lifetime Value Added
+$34k
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies
MastCIP: 2202
Median Debt
$37,402
Earnings (5yr)
$145,138
Lifetime Value Added
+$812k
Mechanical Engineering
MastCIP: 1419
Median Debt
$29,640
Earnings (5yr)
$102,878
Lifetime Value Added
+$452k
Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions
MastCIP: 5115
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$56,589
Lifetime Value Added
+$50k
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration
MastCIP: 5120
Median Debt
$29,879
Earnings (5yr)
$104,144
Lifetime Value Added
+$463k
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences
MastCIP: 2609
Median Debt
$36,319
Earnings (5yr)
$52,199
Lifetime Value Added
+$9k
Political Science and Government
MastCIP: 4510
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$76,442
Lifetime Value Added
+$225k
Psychology, General
MastCIP: 4201
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$54,785
Lifetime Value Added
+$33k
Public Health
MastCIP: 5122
Median Debt
$46,838
Earnings (5yr)
$68,408
Lifetime Value Added
+$156k
Real Estate
MastCIP: 5215
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$117,530
Lifetime Value Added
+$578k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
MastCIP: 5138
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$110,923
Lifetime Value Added
+$521k
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
MastCIP: 5123
Median Debt
$40,050
Earnings (5yr)
$77,455
Lifetime Value Added
+$234k
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
MastCIP: 2313
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$25,194
Lifetime Value Added
-$238k
Soil Sciences
MastCIP: 0112
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$67,101
Lifetime Value Added
+$180k
Special Education and Teaching
MastCIP: 1310
Median Debt
$20,672
Earnings (5yr)
$56,907
Lifetime Value Added
+$53k
Student Counseling and Personnel Services
MastCIP: 1311
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$56,612
Lifetime Value Added
+$50k
Systems Engineering
MastCIP: 1427
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$138,498
Lifetime Value Added
+$756k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods
MastCIP: 1312
Median Debt
$24,500
Earnings (5yr)
$55,631
Lifetime Value Added
+$41k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
MastCIP: 1313
Median Debt
$29,188
Earnings (5yr)
$58,570
Lifetime Value Added
+$68k
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
MastCIP: 0181
Median Debt
$24,122
Earnings (5yr)
$86,986
Lifetime Value Added
+$316k
Graduate Certificates
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration
Gr-CertCIP: 5120
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$54,035
Lifetime Value Added
+$112k
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Gr-CertCIP: 0181
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$86,867
Lifetime Value Added
+$441k
Doctoral Degrees
Anthropology
DocCIP: 4502
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$72,231
Lifetime Value Added
+$71k
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
DocCIP: 2699
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$82,512
Lifetime Value Added
+$146k
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
DocCIP: 1405
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$89,530
Lifetime Value Added
+$237k
Chemistry
DocCIP: 4005
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$135,069
Lifetime Value Added
+$527k
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
DocCIP: 4228
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$94,280
Lifetime Value Added
+$232k
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
DocCIP: 5102
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$89,705
Lifetime Value Added
+$198k
Curriculum and Instruction
DocCIP: 1303
Median Debt
$48,278
Earnings (5yr)
$78,995
Lifetime Value Added
+$120k
Educational Administration and Supervision
DocCIP: 1304
Median Debt
$67,785
Earnings (5yr)
$89,476
Lifetime Value Added
+$197k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
DocCIP: 1410
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$106,421
Lifetime Value Added
+$367k
English Language and Literature, General
DocCIP: 2301
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$69,985
Lifetime Value Added
+$54k
Materials Engineering
DocCIP: 1418
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$74,576
Lifetime Value Added
+$121k
Mechanical Engineering
DocCIP: 1419
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$122,443
Lifetime Value Added
+$436k
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences
DocCIP: 2609
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$68,477
Lifetime Value Added
+$74k
Plant Sciences
DocCIP: 0111
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$67,660
Lifetime Value Added
+$67k
Political Science and Government
DocCIP: 4510
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$57,318
Lifetime Value Added
-$15k
Psychology, General
DocCIP: 4201
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$112,858
Lifetime Value Added
+$367k
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
DocCIP: 5138
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$116,198
Lifetime Value Added
+$391k
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
DocCIP: 5123
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$79,002
Lifetime Value Added
+$120k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
DocCIP: 1313
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$94,522
Lifetime Value Added
+$233k
Zoology/Animal Biology
DocCIP: 2607
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$48,823
Lifetime Value Added
-$85k
Professional Degrees
Dentistry
ProfCIP: 5104
Median Debt
$237,788
Earnings (5yr)
$181,489
Lifetime Value Added
+$861k
Law
ProfCIP: 2201
Median Debt
$71,483
Earnings (5yr)
$116,234
Lifetime Value Added
+$391k
Medicine
ProfCIP: 5112
Median Debt
$180,021
Earnings (5yr)
$154,656
Lifetime Value Added
+$668k
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration
ProfCIP: 5120
Median Debt
$139,182
Earnings (5yr)
$142,742
Lifetime Value Added
+$582k
Veterinary Medicine
ProfCIP: 0180
Median Debt
$169,992
Earnings (5yr)
$121,343
Lifetime Value Added
+$428k
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.