Bachelor's · Albany, New York
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University at Albany 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 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $79,402
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $77k (likely $77k – $78k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $45k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.8–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $201k (likely $65k – $345k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $679k (likely $404k – $980k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 63%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$113,822
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$110,374
- Taxation (Master's)$109,679
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$108,938
- Applied Mathematics (Bachelor's)$103,659
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$98,010
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Bachelor's)$95,885
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$86,331
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$85,424
- Public Administration (Master's)$84,950
- Public Administration (Graduate certificate)$81,812
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$80,285
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in New York
- Cornell University$147,241
- Columbia University in the City of New York$143,332
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art$139,068
- SUNY Maritime College$107,749
- New York University$107,348
- University of Rochester$105,183
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$104,596
- Manhattan University$100,884
- New York Institute of Technology$99,480
- Binghamton University$99,397