Bachelor's · Riverdale, New York
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Manhattan 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 2.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $82,574
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $108,362
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,978
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $106k (likely $106k – $127k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $71k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.7 years (likely 2.2–3.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $395k (likely $236k – $561k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.23M (likely $884k – $1.61M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Manhattan University
- Civil Engineering (Master's)$119,967
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$109,800
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$105,243
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$100,376
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$97,889
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$96,134
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor's)$95,877
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering (Master's)$93,662
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$92,802
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$92,262
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$91,394
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$89,305
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in New York
- Cornell University$147,241
- Columbia University in the City of New York$143,332
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art$139,068
- SUNY Maritime College$107,749
- New York University$107,348
- University of Rochester$105,183
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$104,596
- New York Institute of Technology$99,480
- Binghamton University$99,397
- Stony Brook University$98,573