Bachelor's · West Lafayette, Indiana
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at Purdue University-Main Campus worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $72,173
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $92,293
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,432
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $63k (likely $63k – $79k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $54k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.2 years (likely 1.9–2.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $283k (likely $209k – $355k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $922k (likely $759k – $1.12M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 84%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Agricultural Business and Management (Master's)$155,217
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- Engineering, Other (Master's)$140,404
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$137,523
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$135,033
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$133,021
- Engineering, General (Master's)$132,800
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$132,747
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering (Master's)$131,275
- Veterinary Medicine (First professional)$123,596
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Master's)$122,295
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- University of Notre Dame$160,313
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- Ball State University$70,833
- University of Southern Indiana$70,473
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