Bachelor's · North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $85,533
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $101,701
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $86k (likely $86k – $116k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $58k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.0–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $281k (likely $136k – $429k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $982k (likely $671k – $1.33M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business/Commerce, General (Graduate certificate)$113,127
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$101,254
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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-Amherst$101,091
- 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