College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT · Public · Bachelor-granting · 27,264 undergrads · 86% admitted

Do students finish?

65% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$25,557/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$102,228 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.

$67,170 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $40,587 median $67,170 75th pct $99,335

78% 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.

53 Bachelor's programs · $20,152 to $78,226 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Computer Science.Bachelor's $78,226 $19,000

Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $71,337 $18,970

Mining and Mineral Engineering.Bachelor's $67,359 —

Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $67,225 $19,000

Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $66,036 $20,200

Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $63,860 $21,250

Biomedical/Medical Engineering.Bachelor's $60,458 $19,476

Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $59,806 $18,750

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.Bachelor's $59,770 $21,088

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $58,898 $18,500

Information Science/Studies.Bachelor's $58,265 $23,920

Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $55,325 $18,408

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $52,879 $20,643

Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $52,747 —

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $49,187 $20,171

Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.Bachelor's $47,195 —

Marketing.Bachelor's $46,721 $20,765

Mathematics.Bachelor's $46,077 $21,897

Economics.Bachelor's $45,716 $15,750

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $43,884 $23,370

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $43,095 —

Materials Engineering.Bachelor's $42,076 —

Physics.Bachelor's $41,887 —

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $40,189 —

Social Sciences, General.Bachelor's $39,139 $21,500

History.Bachelor's $38,866 $18,250

Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $38,615 $22,500

Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $38,433 $17,500

Urban Studies/Affairs.Bachelor's $38,068 —

Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $38,063 $13,875

Architecture.Bachelor's $37,829 —

Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $37,281 —

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $37,073 $18,062

Chemistry.Bachelor's $36,731 $15,921

Social Work.Bachelor's $35,854 $13,903

Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.Bachelor's $35,711 $19,125

Public Health.Bachelor's $35,234 $14,689

Sociology.Bachelor's $35,174 $14,516

Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $34,946 —

Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.Bachelor's $34,734 —

International/Globalization Studies.Bachelor's $34,511 $24,305

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $32,822 $17,375

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $30,774 $17,766

Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $30,673 $13,997

Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $29,801 —

Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.Bachelor's $29,413 $20,250

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $29,370 $17,663

Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $29,147 $23,000

Anthropology.Bachelor's $28,754 $23,500

Biology, General.Bachelor's $28,679 $19,831

Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $24,796 $19,566

Music.Bachelor's $21,696 $15,500

Dance.Bachelor's $20,152 $15,284

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

$14,000

≈ 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. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

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 (86 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