Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Miami University-Oxford

Oxford, OH · Public · Bachelor-granting · 16,656 undergrads · 75% admitted

Do students finish?
80% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$38,757/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$155,028 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.

$55,076 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $34,102 median $55,076 75th pct $84,230

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.

57 Bachelor's programs · $20,841 to $68,519 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $68,519 $20,500
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $67,795 $26,000
Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $66,235 $25,994
Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.Bachelor's $66,101 $18,750
Manufacturing Engineering.Bachelor's $65,905 —
Engineering-Related Fields.Bachelor's $62,902 $26,800
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $62,779 $24,250
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $62,396 $24,700
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $61,275 $21,788
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.Bachelor's $58,715 $27,000
Business/Managerial Economics.Bachelor's $58,704 $24,000
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $58,058 $22,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $57,809 $25,000
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $57,126 $24,807
Economics.Bachelor's $55,827 $24,625
Statistics.Bachelor's $53,040 $23,875
Marketing.Bachelor's $52,355 $22,000
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $48,188 $27,000
Architecture.Bachelor's $45,264 —
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $44,973 $23,681
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $44,717 $23,500
Area Studies.Bachelor's $40,022 $20,526
Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $39,769 —
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $39,311 $25,000
Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $39,292 $26,000
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $39,272 $21,998
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $38,948 $26,972
Sustainability Studies.Bachelor's $38,619 $22,370
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $38,328 $26,000
Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language.Bachelor's $38,306 $24,500
Journalism.Bachelor's $37,353 $27,000
International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $36,377 $20,475
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $35,866 $23,000
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $34,978 $20,702
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $34,610 $18,946
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $34,290 $23,250
Public Health.Bachelor's $34,267 $21,880
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $34,065 $23,647
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $34,008 $19,500
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $33,717 $19,500
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $32,643 $19,750
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $32,459 $23,250
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $32,199 $24,500
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $31,726 $28,489
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $31,667 $27,000
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $31,344 —
Biology, General.Bachelor's $29,985 $25,000
Social Work.Bachelor's $29,778 $25,000
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $29,766 —
Public Administration.Bachelor's $29,039 $25,732
Sociology.Bachelor's $28,084 $23,250
History.Bachelor's $26,692 $22,353
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.Bachelor's $26,209 $21,670
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $25,215 $27,000
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.Bachelor's $21,685 $23,250
Zoology/Animal Biology.Bachelor's $21,040 $22,500
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $20,841 $25,500

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
$16,000
≈ 29% 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 (69 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