Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Connecticut-Stamford

Stamford, CT · Public · Bachelor-granting · 2,432 undergrads · 83% admitted

Do students finish?
57% complete

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

What does it cost?
$30,122/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$120,488 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.

$73,997 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $50,150 median $73,997 75th pct $109,163

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.

56 Bachelor's programs · $18,357 to $72,315 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Industrial Engineering.Bachelor's $72,315 $24,889
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $72,181 $26,500
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $71,802 $20,134
Computer Science.Bachelor's $71,033 $25,000
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $70,444 $20,313
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $69,870
Materials Engineering.Bachelor's $69,167 $27,000
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $68,876 $22,089
Applied Mathematics.Bachelor's $68,050 $23,495
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $65,893 $21,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $65,730 $19,500
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $63,392 $19,500
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $62,972 $24,000
Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $62,568 $24,700
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $62,219 $25,000
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.Bachelor's $58,517 $21,500
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.Bachelor's $54,011 $23,250
Marketing.Bachelor's $51,531 $21,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $50,340 $20,500
Chemistry.Bachelor's $49,230 $25,818
Statistics.Bachelor's $48,001 $19,500
Economics.Bachelor's $47,530 $21,125
Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $45,069 $19,078
Mathematics.Bachelor's $42,265 $21,163
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $42,075 $19,931
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $40,698 $22,375
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $40,256 $21,500
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $37,172 $21,500
Plant Sciences.Bachelor's $36,983
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $35,353 $21,036
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $33,631 $20,464
Physics.Bachelor's $33,424 $25,460
Research and Experimental Psychology.Bachelor's $33,189 $23,199
Sociology.Bachelor's $32,981 $19,500
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $32,092 $21,500
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $32,079 $21,506
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $31,857 $20,500
Journalism.Bachelor's $31,444 $21,500
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $31,019 $25,411
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.Bachelor's $30,677 $24,711
Area Studies.Bachelor's $29,732
Anthropology.Bachelor's $29,630 $17,500
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.Bachelor's $29,511 $20,500
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $29,439 $26,012
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.Bachelor's $29,218 $24,234
Biology, General.Bachelor's $29,040 $23,250
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $28,740 $21,500
Zoology/Animal Biology.Bachelor's $27,868 $23,250
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $27,713 $21,824
History.Bachelor's $26,434 $21,377
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $26,365 $24,125
Animal Sciences.Bachelor's $25,314 $22,500
Public Policy Analysis.Bachelor's $25,200 $24,250
Nutrition Sciences.Bachelor's $25,053 $26,603
Urban Studies/Affairs.Bachelor's $23,132 $20,750
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $18,357 $24,148

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
$18,610
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. 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 (78 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