Master's · Syracuse, New York
Is Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at Syracuse 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $71,519
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $93,986
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $60,545
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $64k (likely $64k – $64k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $26k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.9 years (likely 4.8–7.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$16k (likely −$91k – $49k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $337k (likely $145k – $507k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$155,598
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$120,773
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- School of Visual Arts$126,448
- Marist University$90,060
- Hofstra University$85,300
- CUNY City College$81,401
- St. John's University-New York$71,471
- Iona University$45,072