Bachelor's · Duluth, Minnesota
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at The College of Saint Scholastica 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.5 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
- $71,118
- 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
- $114k (likely $114k – $128k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $29k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.5 years (likely 3.6–9.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$25k (likely −$159k – $142k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $313k (likely $23k – $663k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 67%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
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- Business Management HL
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Other majors at The College of Saint Scholastica
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- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$77,139
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- Metropolitan State University$74,237
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