Master's · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Carnegie Mellon 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $178,404
- 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
- $99,122
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $105k (likely $105k – $105k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $114k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.7 years (likely 1.4–1.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $822k (likely $703k – $968k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $2.03M (likely $1.75M – $2.38M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Drexel University$155,026
- Villanova University$140,876
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley$139,676
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg$139,676
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus$139,676
- Pennsylvania State University-World Campus$139,676
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia$122,660
- University of Pennsylvania$106,399
- Temple University$105,003
- La Salle University$98,457