College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 32,952 undergrads · 68% admitted

Do students finish?

81% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$22,690/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$90,760 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$75,790 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $39,894 median $75,790 75th pct $119,196

77% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

62 Bachelor's programs · $14,856 to $82,667 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Computer Science.Bachelor's $82,667 $12,000

Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $74,326 $11,000

Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $71,754 $13,500

Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.Bachelor's $69,188 $7,400

Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $68,789 $11,625

Construction Management.Bachelor's $67,720 $12,364

Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $67,199 $14,680

Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $66,731 $12,500

Manufacturing Engineering.Bachelor's $65,857 $11,000

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $63,600 $11,000

Business/Managerial Economics.Bachelor's $63,484 —

Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $63,211 $10,544

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $60,568 $9,127

Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $60,309 $8,500

Statistics.Bachelor's $57,692 $10,312

Economics.Bachelor's $57,448 $11,000

Housing and Human Environments.Bachelor's $56,859 —

Marketing.Bachelor's $56,416 $11,000

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.Bachelor's $54,931 —

Human Resources Management and Services.Bachelor's $53,041 —

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $51,830 —

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $50,600 $7,830

Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.Bachelor's $47,377 —

Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.Bachelor's $42,900 $12,250

Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $42,391 —

International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $42,006 —

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $41,037 $11,974

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $41,028 $10,646

Sociology.Bachelor's $40,751 $14,000

Physics.Bachelor's $40,730 —

Graphic Communications.Bachelor's $40,362 —

Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $39,924 $12,065

Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $39,884 $11,210

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $39,856 $10,000

Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $38,021 —

Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $37,329 $20,000

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $36,102 $13,385

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $35,254 $12,500

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $34,189 $11,625

Journalism.Bachelor's $32,982 $14,959

Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $32,016 $11,894

Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $31,269 $11,087

Zoology/Animal Biology.Bachelor's $31,142 —

Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $30,637 $10,419

Area Studies.Bachelor's $30,421 $11,229

History.Bachelor's $29,901 $11,750

Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.Bachelor's $29,068 $11,742

Public Health.Bachelor's $28,871 $10,317

Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.Bachelor's $28,148 —

Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.Bachelor's $25,153 $11,438

Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $24,952 $13,502

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $24,482 $11,000

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $24,435 $8,987

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $24,143 —

Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.Bachelor's $22,165 $15,000

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $21,635 $10,494

Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $21,303 $10,475

Neurobiology and Neurosciences.Bachelor's $21,255 $12,344

Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.Bachelor's $20,739 $13,000

Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $20,605 $22,330

Music.Bachelor's $17,786 $10,920

Dance.Bachelor's $14,856 —

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt

$8,310

≈ 11% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (70 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website