College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Buzzards Bay, MA · Public · Bachelor-granting · 1,395 undergrads · 95% admitted

Do students finish?

74% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$31,367/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$125,468 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.

$82,392 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $55,062 median $82,392 75th pct $123,345

92% 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.

7 Bachelor's programs · $45,730 to $83,288 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Systems Engineering.Bachelor's $83,288 $27,000

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.Bachelor's $83,261 $27,000

Marine Transportation.Bachelor's $75,919 $23,250

Engineering, Other.Bachelor's $72,995 $26,000

Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other.Bachelor's $46,903 $25,000

International Business.Bachelor's $46,873 $25,000

Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $45,730 $26,000

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

$20,500

≈ 25% 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 (9 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