College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 15,477 undergrads · 46% admitted

Do students finish?

84% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$84,517/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$338,068 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.

$79,164 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $52,205 median $79,164 75th pct $112,094

86% 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 · $18,000 to $75,809 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $75,809 —

Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $74,507 $27,000

Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $69,301 —

Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $68,264 $27,000

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $64,229 $27,000

Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $63,925 $27,000

Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.Bachelor's $60,947 $27,000

Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $60,768 $27,000

Information Science/Studies.Bachelor's $60,673 $26,564

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $60,519 $27,000

Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $60,439 $27,000

Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services.Bachelor's $55,991 $27,000

Real Estate.Bachelor's $53,802 —

Architectural Sciences and Technology.Bachelor's $52,943 $31,000

Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $50,920 $27,000

Marketing.Bachelor's $50,778 $26,951

Applied Mathematics.Bachelor's $49,745 —

Public Administration.Bachelor's $48,017 $26,000

Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $47,988 $27,000

Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $47,611 $24,375

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $46,454 $26,350

Mathematics.Bachelor's $46,261 $27,000

Economics.Bachelor's $45,639 $25,500

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $42,197 $24,990

Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $40,400 $27,000

Journalism.Bachelor's $39,363 $27,000

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $39,308 $26,091

Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $37,905 $26,000

Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $37,847 $26,406

International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $37,488 $26,068

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $37,302 $27,000

Biotechnology.Bachelor's $37,007 $27,000

Social Work.Bachelor's $35,976 $26,950

Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $34,640 $27,000

Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $34,545 $23,250

Interior Architecture.Bachelor's $34,397 —

Chemistry.Bachelor's $33,759 $21,459

Sociology.Bachelor's $32,936 $24,500

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $32,210 $26,000

History.Bachelor's $31,974 $24,250

Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $31,279 $22,962

Human Services, General.Bachelor's $30,908 $26,273

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $30,485 $27,000

Music.Bachelor's $29,737 —

Neurobiology and Neurosciences.Bachelor's $28,360 $27,000

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $28,242 $26,137

Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.Bachelor's $28,163 —

Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.Bachelor's $27,979 $27,000

Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $27,741 $26,875

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $26,931 $26,750

Biology, General.Bachelor's $26,042 $27,000

Public Health.Bachelor's $25,768 $27,000

Anthropology.Bachelor's $25,610 $22,499

Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.Bachelor's $23,321 $26,750

Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $21,187 $27,000

Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.Bachelor's $19,346 —

Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $18,000 $26,950

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

$23,697

≈ 30% 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 (76 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