Bachelor's · Emmitsburg, Maryland
Is Sociology at Mount St. Mary's University 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $61,536
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $82k (likely $82k – $82k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MD
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.4 years (likely 3.9–8.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$52k (likely −$134k – $41k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $198k (likely $27k – $396k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 61%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- University of Maryland-College Park$65,974
- Bowie State University$57,075
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- Frostburg State University$54,197
- Washington College$53,799
- Morgan State University$52,116
- University of Maryland-Baltimore County$51,421
- Salisbury University$49,411
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- University of Maryland Eastern Shore$46,314