Bachelor's · Old Westbury, New York
Is Information Science/Studies at SUNY Old Westbury worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 1.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $84,154
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $38k (likely $38k – $53k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $46k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.3 years (likely 0.9–2.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $252k (likely $93k – $425k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $778k (likely $458k – $1.15M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 43%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- State University of New York at Oswego$74,812
- CUNY New York City College of Technology$74,456
- CUNY Lehman College$73,936
- CUNY Brooklyn College$67,838
- SUNY Polytechnic Institute$67,049