Bachelor's · New York, New York
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at CUNY City College worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 0.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $82,646
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $104,939
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $12,099
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $7k (likely $7k – $9k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $67k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.2 years (likely 0.2–0.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $484k (likely $385k – $594k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.27M (likely $1.04M – $1.53M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 50%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art$139,068
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- Manhattan University$100,884
- New York Institute of Technology$99,480
- Binghamton University$99,397