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Master's · Raleigh, North Carolina

Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at North Carolina State University at Raleigh 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 0.8 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating
$108,654
Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating
$140,956
Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation
$20,500
NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
$22k (likely $22k – $22k)
AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4
$81k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback
0.8 years (likely 0.6–1.1)
Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return
$617k (likely $441k – $811k)
Today's dollars
20-year net return
$1.58M (likely $1.18M – $2.04M)
Today's dollars

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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.

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