Bachelor's · Madison, New Jersey
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus 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 3.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $61,930
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $90,877
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,635
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $105k (likely $105k – $128k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $51k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.8 years (likely 3.1–4.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $180k (likely $65k – $302k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $783k (likely $533k – $1.08M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 71%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in New Jersey
- Rutgers University-Camden$100,695
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick$100,695
- Rutgers University-Newark$100,695
- Seton Hall University$89,994
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- New Jersey City University$71,548
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