Master's · Staten Island, New York
Is Social Work at College of Staten Island CUNY 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 4.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $72,936
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $82,243
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $29,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $31k (likely $31k – $31k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $14k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.9 years (likely 2.9–11.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$56k (likely −$168k – $54k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $152k (likely −$88k – $420k)
- 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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- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$86,157
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Social Work at other schools in New York
- CUNY Lehman College$77,884
- CUNY Hunter College$76,071
- Columbia University in the City of New York$75,980
- New York University$72,690
- Adelphi University$71,718
- Touro University$71,531
- Yeshiva University$70,744
- Fordham University$70,342
- Long Island University$69,549
- Stony Brook University$67,350