Bachelor's · Old Westbury, New York
Is Mechanical Engineering at New York Institute of Technology 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 3.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $70,908
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $96,634
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $96k (likely $96k – $126k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $58k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.1 years (likely 2.5–3.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $271k (likely $155k – $413k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $967k (likely $701k – $1.27M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Cornell University$112,212
- Columbia University in the City of New York$111,491
- SUNY Maritime College$106,932
- Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology$103,254
- CUNY City College$97,270
- University of Rochester$95,060
- Hofstra University$94,744
- Rochester Institute of Technology$93,065
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$92,952
- Manhattan University$92,802