Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI · Public · Bachelor-granting · 34,177 undergrads · 16% admitted

Do students finish?
93% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$34,654/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$138,616 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.

$83,648 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $56,535 median $83,648 75th pct $124,806

85% 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.

55 Bachelor's programs · $18,827 to $100,643 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $100,643 $19,475
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $84,934 $19,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $83,131 $19,000
Computer Software and Media Applications.Bachelor's $82,297 $19,230
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $78,393 $17,430
Industrial Engineering.Bachelor's $75,644 $19,750
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $75,414 $20,500
Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $75,199 $20,964
Materials Engineering.Bachelor's $73,854 $16,250
Information Science/Studies.Bachelor's $71,304 $17,592
Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.Bachelor's $67,815 $21,125
Mathematics.Bachelor's $66,504 $20,675
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $65,294 $18,750
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $64,548 $17,500
Economics.Bachelor's $62,024 $18,750
Human Resources Management and Services.Bachelor's $61,347 $14,225
Statistics.Bachelor's $60,804 $23,150
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.Bachelor's $56,501 $17,587
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $47,344 $19,000
Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.Bachelor's $46,330 $17,875
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $45,761 $19,941
Public Policy Analysis.Bachelor's $44,429 $21,000
Physics.Bachelor's $42,728 $21,148
Nuclear Engineering.Bachelor's $41,147 $20,500
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $40,625 $17,965
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $40,529 $14,375
Architecture.Bachelor's $39,533 $15,000
Cognitive Science.Bachelor's $37,741 $22,000
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $36,559 $18,924
International/Globalization Studies.Bachelor's $33,806 $15,240
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $33,679 $17,875
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $33,089 $18,765
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $32,738 $18,767
History.Bachelor's $31,870 $19,096
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $30,568 $18,330
Research and Experimental Psychology.Bachelor's $30,126 $17,787
Sociology.Bachelor's $30,003 $18,419
Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $29,824 $19,024
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $28,964 $16,887
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $26,839 $16,672
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.Bachelor's $26,586 $14,802
Biology, General.Bachelor's $24,623 $18,762
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $24,105 $20,379
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.Bachelor's $23,630 $19,378
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $23,494 $15,500
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $21,743 $17,959
Music.Bachelor's $21,629 $18,997
Anthropology.Bachelor's $21,259 $13,997
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $21,158 $15,242
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.Bachelor's $20,815 $13,720
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $20,297 $13,999
Area Studies.Bachelor's $19,348 $13,821
Astronomy and Astrophysics.Bachelor's $19,258 —
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.Bachelor's $19,248 $17,500
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $18,827 $17,095

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
$17,625
≈ 21% 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 (96 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