Bachelor's · Oswego, New York
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General at State University of New York at Oswego 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 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $73,010
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $107,571
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $69k (likely $69k – $89k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $70k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.7–2.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $418k (likely $286k – $565k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.23M (likely $940k – $1.57M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Precalculus
- AP Calculus AB or BC
IB Higher Level
- Computer Science HL
- Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL
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Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in New York
- Stony Brook University$147,064
- Cornell University$144,389
- New York University$142,495
- Vassar College$124,469
- Syracuse University$120,773
- Barnard College$119,032
- Hamilton College$117,959
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$115,100
- Skidmore College$104,708
- Hobart William Smith Colleges$103,822