Master's · North Andover, Massachusetts
Is Accounting and Related Services at Merrimack College worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,557
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $98,834
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $29,833
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $32k (likely $32k – $32k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $27k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 1.9–4.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $67k (likely −$42k – $183k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $434k (likely $179k – $712k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Merrimack College
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$114,115
- Information Science/Studies (Master's)$101,605
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$96,494
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor's)$90,714
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$85,545
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$84,044
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$79,581
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$73,877
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Master's)$72,160
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$69,615
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$68,209
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$65,549
Accounting and Related Services at other schools in Massachusetts
- Boston College$118,957
- Northeastern University$118,744
- Bentley University$115,201
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$111,662
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$109,628
- Suffolk University$107,236
- Bridgewater State University$99,020
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$98,398
- Nichols College$96,385
- Bay Path University$95,772