Master's · Ithaca, New York
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General at Cornell University 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 0.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $126,407
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $211,475
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $142k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.9 years (likely 0.7–1.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $1.15M (likely $891k – $1.44M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $2.82M (likely $2.20M – $3.52M)
- 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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- Law (Doctoral)$259,851
- Computer Science (Master's)$235,762
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- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$155,909
- Operations Research (Bachelor's)$151,709
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$147,241
- Agricultural Business and Management (Bachelor's)$145,218
Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in New York
- Stony Brook University$184,407
- New York University$173,716
- Syracuse University$155,598
- Columbia University in the City of New York$150,951
- Marist University$115,873
- Pratt Institute-Main$106,619
- Touro University$88,717
- CUNY Bernard M Baruch College$85,649
- University at Buffalo$79,073
- New York Institute of Technology$68,077