Bachelor's · Amherst, Massachusetts
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Amherst 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 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $92,092
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $108,584
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,741
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $97k (likely $97k – $100k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $65k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.9–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $345k (likely $195k – $528k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.14M (likely $786k – $1.54M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 81%
- 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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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$165,473
- Computer Science (Master's)$154,099
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$126,453
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$123,519
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$113,083
- Education, General (Doctoral)$110,816
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$109,628
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$106,958
- Microbiological Sciences and Immunology (Master's)$100,729
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$100,516
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$98,155
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,990
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology$161,118
- Northeastern University$118,150
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute$109,386
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$101,054
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$100,902
- Boston University$98,953
- Western New England University$96,841
- Wentworth Institute of Technology$96,673
- Merrimack College$96,494
- University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth$94,683