Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Georgia

Athens, GA · Public · Bachelor-granting · 32,137 undergrads · 38% admitted

Do students finish?
90% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$27,993/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$111,972 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.

$68,726 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $45,171 median $68,726 75th pct $102,181

80% 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 · $11,926 to $70,908 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Computer Science.Bachelor's $70,908 $20,495
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $67,861 $22,439
Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $67,138 $17,261
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $64,849 $21,383
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $62,942 $20,875
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $62,551 $17,278
Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $61,103 $23,966
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.Bachelor's $60,173 $20,399
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $57,828 $20,000
International Business.Bachelor's $57,817 $15,820
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $56,462 $17,500
Insurance.Bachelor's $53,270 $17,642
Real Estate.Bachelor's $52,848 $19,250
Business/Managerial Economics.Bachelor's $51,322 $19,490
Biological/Biosystems Engineering.Bachelor's $50,995 $21,500
Statistics.Bachelor's $49,825 $19,677
Marketing.Bachelor's $47,961 $17,318
Economics.Bachelor's $47,719 $15,250
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $47,244 $15,750
Landscape Architecture.Bachelor's $45,932 $21,250
Agricultural Business and Management.Bachelor's $43,001 $15,000
Forestry.Bachelor's $42,980 $14,500
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.Bachelor's $41,613 $18,750
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $40,201 $18,750
Mathematics.Bachelor's $39,208 $16,250
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $39,042 $19,500
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $38,528 $17,250
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.Bachelor's $38,422 $19,500
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $38,093 $17,500
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $38,066 $15,250
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $36,755 $15,337
Housing and Human Environments.Bachelor's $35,788 $19,679
International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $34,590 $18,761
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $33,737 $17,625
Animal Sciences.Bachelor's $33,052 $18,250
Chemistry.Bachelor's $32,284 $18,250
Journalism.Bachelor's $32,164 $19,500
Public Health.Bachelor's $31,569 $20,788
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $31,407 $21,500
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $31,338 $20,019
Sociology.Bachelor's $30,198 $15,875
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $29,842 $19,500
History.Bachelor's $28,733 $16,500
Anthropology.Bachelor's $28,649 $20,003
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $27,788 $19,516
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $26,130 $18,845
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $25,347 $19,500
Nutrition Sciences.Bachelor's $24,816 $21,205
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management.Bachelor's $23,994 $22,000
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $23,773 $18,250
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $23,105 $15,000
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $23,064 $14,000
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $21,735 $20,750
Biology, General.Bachelor's $21,614 $19,500
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.Bachelor's $13,326 $18,375
Biological and Physical Sciences.Bachelor's $12,715 $19,562
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $11,926 $23,214

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
$16,666
≈ 24% 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 (88 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