Bachelor's · Brooklyn, New York
Is Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at CUNY Brooklyn College 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 6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $24,194
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $42,790
- 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
- $4k (likely $4k – $5k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $5k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6 years (likely 2.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$133k (likely −$205k – −$50k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$53k (likely −$191k – $137k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at CUNY Brooklyn College
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$119,900
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$95,838
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$90,918
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$89,943
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Graduate certificate)$88,981
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Master's)$88,828
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$88,100
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$85,908
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$84,744
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$83,379
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$83,086
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$80,655
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at other schools in New York
- Hobart William Smith Colleges$68,522
- Syracuse University$61,159
- St. Joseph's University-New York$57,305
- University at Albany$57,286
- Ithaca College$51,001
- Binghamton University$49,366
- Columbia University in the City of New York$47,702
- Manhattanville University$46,500
- Hamilton College$42,806
- SUNY at Purchase College$42,372