Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 12,913 undergrads · 19% admitted

Do students finish?
84% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$86,078/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$344,312 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.

$75,328 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $49,163 median $75,328 75th pct $115,933

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.

33 Bachelor's programs · $14,459 to $67,514 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Computer Science.Bachelor's $67,514 $18,584
Statistics.Bachelor's $65,603
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $61,860 $17,818
Business/Managerial Economics.Bachelor's $60,274 $14,700
Industrial Engineering.Bachelor's $58,892 $15,110
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $57,413 $14,500
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $56,746 $17,750
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.Bachelor's $56,640 $12,250
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $51,220 $17,650
Architecture.Bachelor's $50,674
Non-Professional Legal Studies.Bachelor's $50,340 $15,565
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $48,570 $18,425
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $47,378 $26,175
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $47,164
Marketing.Bachelor's $45,330 $18,508
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $41,372 $18,375
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $40,082 $17,000
Economics.Bachelor's $37,655 $16,101
International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $35,769 $16,478
Journalism.Bachelor's $32,587 $15,500
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $32,000 $16,500
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $30,568 $19,250
Criminology.Bachelor's $29,138 $16,062
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $27,028 $17,670
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $25,996 $15,375
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $24,581
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $23,887 $19,250
Biology, General.Bachelor's $21,259 $16,793
Music.Bachelor's $18,726 $13,999
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $18,460 $16,500
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.Bachelor's $15,352 $17,000
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $15,142 $17,500
Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $14,459 $17,500

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
$15,250
20% 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 (51 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