Master's · New York, New York
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at CUNY City College 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 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $81,243
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $85,650
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $33,272
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $35k (likely $35k – $35k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 2.2–9.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$37k (likely −$148k – $98k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $145k (likely −$81k – $420k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at CUNY City College
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$149,434
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$148,354
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$142,345
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$117,131
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$116,238
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$99,125
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,698
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,270
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Bachelor's)$95,685
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$94,601
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Master's)$90,944
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$88,659
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at other schools in New York
- Boricua College$89,128
- Pace University$85,077
- St. John's University-New York$83,019
- CUNY Brooklyn College$80,655
- Molloy University$79,134
- CUNY Lehman College$78,311
- CUNY Queens College$77,925
- CUNY Hunter College$77,067
- Relay Graduate School of Education$76,883
- Teachers College at Columbia University$75,388