Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Delaware

Newark, DE · Public · Bachelor-granting · 19,071 undergrads · 71% admitted

Do students finish?
81% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$30,952/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$123,808 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.

$72,950 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $50,480 median $72,950 75th pct $101,260

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.

54 Bachelor's programs · $18,981 to $77,168 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $77,168 $26,363
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $71,752 $25,954
Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $70,693 $26,000
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $70,538 $25,261
Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $66,395 $25,182
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $65,214 $25,000
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $64,605 $26,000
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.Bachelor's $61,520 $25,908
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $60,973 $25,000
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $60,848 $26,301
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $59,257 $23,495
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $55,689 $25,752
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.Bachelor's $55,640 $26,950
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $54,936 —
Economics.Bachelor's $53,288 $25,000
International Business.Bachelor's $51,769 $23,250
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $51,414 $23,302
Agricultural Business and Management.Bachelor's $51,351 $20,500
Marketing.Bachelor's $48,859 $24,499
Chemistry.Bachelor's $46,748 $24,597
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $45,447 $25,334
Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $45,097 $22,850
Apparel and Textiles.Bachelor's $44,866 $22,250
Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $43,865 $26,000
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $43,191 $26,298
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $42,454 $25,908
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $41,737 $24,296
Educational Administration and Supervision.Bachelor's $40,939 $25,000
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.Bachelor's $38,909 $25,250
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $37,692 $23,250
Public Policy Analysis.Bachelor's $36,841 $25,195
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $34,263 $25,410
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $34,156 $25,000
Criminology.Bachelor's $33,603 $23,375
Human Services, General.Bachelor's $32,330 $23,250
Sociology.Bachelor's $31,584 $23,197
International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $31,223 $24,748
Public Health.Bachelor's $30,641 $24,336
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.Bachelor's $30,432 $24,411
Research and Experimental Psychology.Bachelor's $30,180 $23,883
Agriculture, General.Bachelor's $28,961 $24,408
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $28,844 $25,500
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $27,195 $25,000
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.Bachelor's $26,224 $26,168
History.Bachelor's $25,851 $22,518
Biology, General.Bachelor's $23,403 $24,235
Music.Bachelor's $23,051 $25,334
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.Bachelor's $22,391 $25,908
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management.Bachelor's $22,340 $25,130
Cognitive Science.Bachelor's $21,268 $25,334
Anthropology.Bachelor's $20,403 —
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $19,872 $19,500
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.Bachelor's $19,749 $25,000
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $18,981 $24,998

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
$21,000
≈ 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 (70 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