Institution | State | Earnings | Avg Net Price | Median Debt | Lifetime Value Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University Evanston | IL | $129,919 5yr Post-Grad | $27,143 /yr | $16,833 | +$468k |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla | CA | $118,528 5yr Post-Grad | $11,750 /yr | $20,000 | +$439k |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore | MD | $118,167 5yr Post-Grad | $18,161 /yr | $11,207 | +$414k |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles | CA | $114,571 5yr Post-Grad | $14,013 /yr | $14,500 | +$402k |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia | PA | $121,488 5yr Post-Grad | $31,229 /yr | $15,593 | +$391k |
| California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo | CA | $111,260 5yr Post-Grad | $15,624 /yr | $20,500 | +$371k |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine | CA | $109,350 5yr Post-Grad | $12,840 /yr | $16,750 | +$367k |
| Duke University Durham | NC | $115,268 5yr Post-Grad | $34,454 /yr | $13,894 | +$333k |
| University of California-Davis Davis | CA | $105,286 5yr Post-Grad | $15,288 /yr | $15,979 | +$328k |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles | CA | $112,503 5yr Post-Grad | $31,927 /yr | $13,750 | +$322k |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge | MA | $106,402 5yr Post-Grad | $19,813 /yr | $13,000 | +$320k |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta | GA | $102,958 5yr Post-Grad | $13,289 /yr | $21,375 | +$318k |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville | TN | $105,677 5yr Post-Grad | $19,040 /yr | $15,000 | +$318k |
| George Washington University Washington | DC | $114,006 5yr Post-Grad | $37,454 /yr | $23,000 | +$313k |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign | IL | $103,191 5yr Post-Grad | $15,201 /yr | $16,850 | +$313k |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy | NY | $111,812 5yr Post-Grad | $33,139 /yr | $26,000 | +$312k |
| Santa Clara University Santa Clara | CA | $118,457 5yr Post-Grad | $50,959 /yr | $20,500 | +$298k |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station | TX | $101,088 5yr Post-Grad | $20,924 /yr | $19,000 | +$276k |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh | NC | $99,115 5yr Post-Grad | $16,931 /yr | $19,872 | +$276k |
| University of Utah Salt Lake City | UT | $97,195 5yr Post-Grad | $13,172 /yr | $19,476 | +$275k |
| University of Arizona Tucson | AZ | $98,396 5yr Post-Grad | $15,960 /yr | $19,000 | +$274k |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo | NY | $100,258 5yr Post-Grad | $20,470 /yr | $19,615 | +$272k |
| University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury | CT | $94,444 5yr Post-Grad | $8,896 /yr | $25,000 | +$270k |
| University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz | CA | $98,115 5yr Post-Grad | $16,607 /yr | $23,000 | +$270k |
| Florida International University Miami | FL | $93,714 5yr Post-Grad | $9,133 /yr | $19,500 | +$264k |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester | NY | $103,407 5yr Post-Grad | $29,694 /yr | $28,308 | +$262k |
| Washington State University Pullman | WA | $95,879 5yr Post-Grad | $14,401 /yr | - | +$261k |
| University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton | CT | $94,444 5yr Post-Grad | $11,504 /yr | $25,000 | +$261k |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh | PA | $103,167 5yr Post-Grad | $30,074 /yr | $27,000 | +$259k |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins | CO | $98,033 5yr Post-Grad | $20,332 /yr | - | +$256k |
| Oregon State University-Cascades Campus Bend | OR | $96,618 5yr Post-Grad | $17,722 /yr | $21,500 | +$255k |
| Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans | LA | $109,205 5yr Post-Grad | $43,939 /yr | $22,500 | +$254k |
| University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford | CT | $94,444 5yr Post-Grad | $13,339 /yr | $25,000 | +$254k |
| University of Connecticut-Stamford Stamford | CT | $94,444 5yr Post-Grad | $14,059 /yr | $25,000 | +$251k |
| Oregon State University Corvallis | OR | $96,618 5yr Post-Grad | $19,568 /yr | $21,500 | +$248k |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston | MA | $103,502 5yr Post-Grad | $34,170 /yr | $27,000 | +$247k |
| Lehigh University Bethlehem | PA | $103,136 5yr Post-Grad | $33,549 /yr | $26,000 | +$246k |
| University of Rochester Rochester | NY | $101,457 5yr Post-Grad | $30,248 /yr | $20,500 | +$246k |
| Colorado School of Mines Golden | CO | $100,802 5yr Post-Grad | $29,240 /yr | $23,370 | +$244k |
| Michigan Technological University Houghton | MI | $94,268 5yr Post-Grad | $15,729 /yr | $27,000 | +$244k |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison | WI | $94,667 5yr Post-Grad | $16,928 /yr | $20,492 | +$243k |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark | NJ | $94,193 5yr Post-Grad | $16,496 /yr | $21,500 | +$241k |
| Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette | IN | $92,892 5yr Post-Grad | $13,945 /yr | $19,500 | +$240k |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis | MN | $93,996 5yr Post-Grad | $17,139 /yr | $21,300 | +$237k |
| Boston University Boston | MA | $98,562 5yr Post-Grad | $26,996 /yr | $25,500 | +$236k |
| University of California-Riverside Riverside | CA | $92,140 5yr Post-Grad | $13,707 /yr | $19,954 | +$235k |
| Drexel University Philadelphia | PA | $103,385 5yr Post-Grad | $38,428 /yr | $29,666 | +$231k |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville | TN | $93,023 5yr Post-Grad | $18,109 /yr | $22,200 | +$226k |
| University of Rhode Island Kingston | RI | $93,508 5yr Post-Grad | $19,899 /yr | $26,234 | +$223k |
| Rice University Houston | TX | $89,863 5yr Post-Grad | $12,640 /yr | - | +$222k |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville | VA | $94,692 5yr Post-Grad | $22,881 /yr | $18,400 | +$222k |
| University of Connecticut Storrs | CT | $94,444 5yr Post-Grad | $22,886 /yr | $25,000 | +$220k |
| Stony Brook University Stony Brook | NY | $92,089 5yr Post-Grad | $18,430 /yr | $24,452 | +$218k |
| University of California-Merced Merced | CA | $89,244 5yr Post-Grad | $12,744 /yr | $20,816 | +$217k |
| The Catholic University of America Washington | DC | $98,693 5yr Post-Grad | $32,798 /yr | - | +$216k |
| University of Delaware Newark | DE | $91,058 5yr Post-Grad | $16,931 /yr | $25,752 | +$216k |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley | CA | $89,225 5yr Post-Grad | $14,979 /yr | $14,896 | +$209k |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester | MA | $102,711 5yr Post-Grad | $43,273 /yr | $27,000 | +$208k |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe | AZ | $88,459 5yr Post-Grad | $13,670 /yr | $21,000 | +$208k |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Fort Myers | FL | $86,835 5yr Post-Grad | $10,319 /yr | $17,779 | +$208k |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin | TX | $91,099 5yr Post-Grad | $19,678 /yr | $21,071 | +$206k |
| Case Western Reserve University Cleveland | OH | $99,721 5yr Post-Grad | $38,909 /yr | $23,250 | +$201k |
| Syracuse University Syracuse | NY | $100,385 5yr Post-Grad | $41,026 /yr | $27,000 | +$199k |
| University of Illinois Chicago Chicago | IL | $86,517 5yr Post-Grad | $12,313 /yr | $21,250 | +$198k |
| University of Iowa Iowa City | IA | $89,577 5yr Post-Grad | $21,398 /yr | $27,000 | +$189k |
| Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis | IN | $84,223 5yr Post-Grad | $11,408 /yr | $19,959 | +$184k |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor | MI | $85,471 5yr Post-Grad | $14,832 /yr | $18,969 | +$181k |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus | OH | $86,881 5yr Post-Grad | $18,292 /yr | $23,125 | +$180k |
| CUNY City College New York | NY | $79,610 5yr Post-Grad | $3,486 /yr | - | +$178k |
| Marquette University Milwaukee | WI | $91,571 5yr Post-Grad | $29,237 /yr | $26,975 | +$175k |
| Wright State University-Main Campus Dayton | OH | $84,716 5yr Post-Grad | $15,216 /yr | $21,395 | +$174k |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn | MI | $77,401 2yr Post-Grad | $10,904 /yr | $26,750 | +$171k |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham | AL | $85,321 5yr Post-Grad | $17,727 /yr | $22,676 | +$170k |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick | NJ | $87,822 5yr Post-Grad | $23,519 /yr | $23,745 | +$168k |
| University of Toledo Toledo | OH | $84,310 5yr Post-Grad | $17,460 /yr | $19,750 | +$163k |
| Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken | NJ | $94,580 5yr Post-Grad | $40,468 /yr | $27,000 | +$157k |
| Clemson University Clemson | SC | $85,149 5yr Post-Grad | $22,112 /yr | $21,375 | +$153k |
| The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson | TX | $82,860 5yr Post-Grad | $17,435 /yr | $18,625 | +$153k |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute | IN | $93,920 5yr Post-Grad | $40,665 /yr | $26,441 | +$152k |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati | OH | $85,432 5yr Post-Grad | $23,156 /yr | $20,625 | +$151k |
| California State University-Long Beach Long Beach | CA | $73,949 2yr Post-Grad | $8,931 /yr | $15,500 | +$150k |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee | WI | $85,180 5yr Post-Grad | $24,021 /yr | $27,000 | +$146k |
| University of Houston Houston | TX | $80,209 5yr Post-Grad | $13,853 /yr | $12,000 | +$146k |
| Binghamton University Vestal | NY | $80,875 5yr Post-Grad | $21,364 /yr | $19,500 | +$124k |
| University of Akron Main Campus Akron | OH | $76,829 5yr Post-Grad | $14,981 /yr | $23,123 | +$116k |
| University of Miami Coral Gables | FL | $86,005 5yr Post-Grad | $36,803 /yr | $18,425 | +$106k |
| Mississippi State University Mississippi State | MS | $75,267 5yr Post-Grad | $15,501 /yr | $25,000 | +$103k |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond | VA | $76,242 5yr Post-Grad | $19,452 /yr | $22,250 | +$96k |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge | LA | $74,903 5yr Post-Grad | $20,015 /yr | $21,492 | +$84k |
| George Mason University Fairfax | VA | $69,338 2yr Post-Grad | $18,287 /yr | $23,594 | +$80k |
| Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago | IL | $72,853 5yr Post-Grad | $19,353 /yr | $27,000 | +$71k |
| Lawrence Technological University Southfield | MI | $73,635 2yr Post-Grad | $33,995 /yr | $26,500 | +$58k |
| University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia | SC | $73,342 5yr Post-Grad | $24,532 /yr | $23,000 | +$56k |
| Southern California Institute of Technology Anaheim | CA | $74,370 5yr Post-Grad | $27,735 /yr | $33,384 | +$52k |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | AR | $64,718 5yr Post-Grad | $17,525 /yr | $27,000 | +$16k |
| Indiana Institute of Technology Fort Wayne | IN | $62,260 2yr Post-Grad | $21,318 /yr | - | +$12k |
| Bucknell University Lewisburg | PA | $66,821 2yr Post-Grad | $40,429 /yr | - | -$20k |
| San Jose State University San Jose | CA | $53,358 2yr Post-Grad | $13,741 /yr | - | -$35k |
| Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh | PA | $60,161 2yr Post-Grad | $31,671 /yr | - | -$42k |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York | NY | $53,810 2yr Post-Grad | $20,148 /yr | - | -$54k |
| Saint Louis University Saint Louis | MO | $58,898 5yr Post-Grad | $27,075 /yr | $27,000 | -$64k |
| Union College Schenectady | NY | $59,124 2yr Post-Grad | $36,000 /yr | $27,000 | -$66k |
| University of Memphis Memphis | TN | $46,087 2yr Post-Grad | $13,253 /yr | $25,250 | -$96k |
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth North Dartmouth | MA | $48,823 2yr Post-Grad | $20,605 /yr | $27,000 | -$98k |
| Widener University Chester | PA | $52,107 2yr Post-Grad | $30,470 /yr | $27,000 | -$105k |
| University of Maine Orono | ME | $43,798 2yr Post-Grad | $18,045 /yr | $20,365 | -$133k |
| Miami University-Oxford Oxford | OH | $47,260 2yr Post-Grad | $27,662 /yr | $27,000 | -$137k |
| Wichita State University Wichita | KS | $40,281 2yr Post-Grad | $13,776 /yr | $19,118 | -$149k |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle | WA | $39,927 2yr Post-Grad | $13,485 /yr | $14,000 | -$151k |
| University of the Pacific Stockton | CA | $33,993 2yr Post-Grad | $25,926 /yr | $22,750 | -$249k |
Analysis Notes:
- Lifetime Value Added: Net Present Value (NPV) of estimated career earnings relative to a median high school graduate, accounting for this institution's average cost and taxes.
- Avg Net Price: The average price paid by students who receive federal financial aid (grants/loans).
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.