Bachelor's · Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Central Michigan University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $88,077
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $98,327
- 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
- $73k (likely $73k – $97k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $62k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.4–2.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $374k (likely $203k – $567k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.09M (likely $731k – $1.51M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Central Michigan University
- Medicine (First professional)$138,552
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$125,201
- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$123,591
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$123,450
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$112,443
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$101,507
- International Business (Master's)$101,449
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$99,708
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$96,611
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$95,721
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$90,336
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$89,216
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Michigan
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$117,610
- Kettering University$109,977
- University of Michigan-Dearborn$105,446
- Wayne State University$100,944
- Michigan State University$100,481
- Grand Valley State University$100,456
- Oakland University$99,967
- Michigan Technological University$99,848
- Lawrence Technological University$97,532
- Western Michigan University$95,469