Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

SUNY Brockport

Brockport, NY · Public · Bachelor-granting · 5,784 undergrads · 71% admitted

Do students finish?
55% complete

A large share of students do not finish; the cost is the same whether or not you graduate.

What does it cost?
$26,046/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$104,184 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.

$54,496 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $37,719 median $54,496 75th pct $74,398

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.

28 Bachelor's programs · $22,152 to $64,752 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $64,752 $16,445
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $50,693 $18,683
Mathematics.Bachelor's $46,869
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $42,931 $21,258
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $42,615 $22,554
International Business.Bachelor's $38,494
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $38,411 $16,009
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $38,225
Marketing.Bachelor's $37,819 $16,562
Biology, General.Bachelor's $35,808 $21,640
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $34,936 $19,969
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $33,829 $23,131
Social Work.Bachelor's $33,077 $18,928
Education, General.Bachelor's $33,073 $25,950
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $33,024 $21,663
Sociology.Bachelor's $33,016 $18,049
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $32,274 $17,748
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.Bachelor's $31,686 $19,559
Journalism.Bachelor's $30,908 $19,699
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $30,733 $18,424
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,640 $19,591
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $28,811 $23,375
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.Bachelor's $28,061 $24,230
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $27,592 $21,425
International/Globalization Studies.Bachelor's $27,292
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $27,135 $22,078
History.Bachelor's $23,999 $23,000
Dance.Bachelor's $22,152 $21,500

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
$15,000
28% 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 (35 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