Master's · Poughkeepsie, New York
Is Public Administration at Marist University 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 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $88,456
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $107,247
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $29,067
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $31k (likely $31k – $31k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $39k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.6–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $190k (likely $99k – $293k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $688k (likely $471k – $948k)
- 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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Public Administration at other schools in New York
- Columbia University in the City of New York$115,874
- New York University$109,946
- Syracuse University$107,868
- Cornell University$100,325
- Alfred University$94,571
- CUNY Bernard M Baruch College$93,751
- Excelsior University$91,233
- University at Albany$84,950
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice$83,931
- Binghamton University$83,478