College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Denver

Denver, CO · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 6,025 undergrads · 78% admitted

Do students finish?

76% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$78,476/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$313,904 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.

$71,155 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $45,159 median $71,155 75th pct $107,151

83% 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.

20 Bachelor's programs · $18,093 to $64,648 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Computer Science.Bachelor's $64,648 $21,053

Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $62,647 $26,248

Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.Bachelor's $57,943 $21,500

Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $55,837 $19,500

Real Estate.Bachelor's $53,339 —

Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $44,799 $20,948

Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $43,996 $21,923

International Business.Bachelor's $43,756 $21,742

Marketing.Bachelor's $42,043 $20,250

Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $40,525 $20,666

Criminology.Bachelor's $34,754 $22,000

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $34,377 $21,500

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $33,712 $21,866

International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $32,897 $19,500

Economics.Bachelor's $31,689 —

Sociology.Bachelor's $29,973 —

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,257 $21,000

Biology, General.Bachelor's $28,793 $20,500

Music.Bachelor's $21,466 $23,559

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $18,093 $25,083

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

$18,000

≈ 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.

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 (54 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