Bachelor's · Dayton, Ohio
Is Computer Engineering at Wright State University-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 1.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $79,302
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $104,898
- 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
- $58k (likely $58k – $77k)
- 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
- 1.8 years (likely 1.4–2.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $399k (likely $263k – $562k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.17M (likely $870k – $1.54M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 42%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Medicine (Doctoral)$106,384
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$96,625
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$92,006
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Undergraduate certificate)$90,197
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Computer Engineering at other schools in Ohio
- Ohio State University-Main Campus$123,731
- University of Dayton$116,356
- University of Cincinnati-Main Campus$102,273
- Miami University-Oxford$96,840
- University of Akron Main Campus$96,791
- University of Toledo$93,816
- Bowling Green State University-Main Campus$93,626
- Cleveland State University$88,595
- DeVry University-Ohio$86,645