Bachelor's · Akron, Ohio
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus 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 1.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $84,861
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,130
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,125
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $55k (likely $55k – $76k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.6 years (likely 1.3–2.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $413k (likely $282k – $544k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.20M (likely $921k – $1.51M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Ohio
- Case Western Reserve University$99,557
- Ohio State University-Main Campus$99,400
- University of Cincinnati-Main Campus$98,364
- University of Toledo$95,846
- University of Dayton$95,595
- Ohio University-Eastern Campus$94,673
- Ohio University-Chillicothe Campus$94,673
- Ohio University-Southern Campus$94,673
- Ohio University-Lancaster Campus$94,673
- Ohio University-Main Campus$94,673