Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC · Public · Bachelor-granting · 19,896 undergrads · 89% admitted

Do students finish?
63% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$23,867/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$95,468 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.

$55,146 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $37,968 median $55,146 75th pct $78,746

74% 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.

45 Bachelor's programs · $18,565 to $61,817 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other.Bachelor's $61,817 $20,500
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $61,076 $24,250
Engineering, General.Bachelor's $61,056 $24,342
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $58,120 $26,853
Computer Science.Bachelor's $57,993 $24,750
Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.Bachelor's $55,129 $19,000
Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $48,057 $21,406
Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.Bachelor's $47,282 —
Health and Medical Administrative Services.Bachelor's $46,750 $22,825
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $46,177 $22,500
Marketing.Bachelor's $44,500 $23,250
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $43,561 $22,323
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $42,335 $21,750
Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $40,259 $24,750
Chemistry.Bachelor's $40,027 $22,000
Economics.Bachelor's $39,460 $24,788
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $38,283 $26,018
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $37,576 $25,000
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $36,077 $21,517
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $35,407 $23,250
History.Bachelor's $34,937 $25,000
Social Work.Bachelor's $34,899 $25,276
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.Bachelor's $34,509 $20,500
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $34,434 $20,500
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $33,632 $21,250
Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $33,479 $25,252
Biology, General.Bachelor's $32,720 $24,125
Apparel and Textiles.Bachelor's $32,462 $24,329
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.Bachelor's $31,205 $24,974
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $30,403 $22,625
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.Bachelor's $30,045 $18,925
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $29,127 $23,544
Public Health.Bachelor's $29,077 $25,000
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $27,535 $26,000
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.Bachelor's $27,030 $24,250
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $27,013 $24,154
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.Bachelor's $26,887 $15,667
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $26,525 $23,250
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $25,801 $25,500
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.Bachelor's $24,742 $22,951
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $23,946 $25,718
Sociology.Bachelor's $23,164 $23,251
Dance.Bachelor's $23,009 —
Anthropology.Bachelor's $20,200 $26,375
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $18,565 $27,000

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
$17,500
≈ 32% 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. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

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 (71 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