Bachelor's · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Is Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University 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
- $78,621
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $103,637
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $16,844
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $53k (likely $53k – $70k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.6 years (likely 1.4–2.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $409k (likely $316k – $514k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.19M (likely $975k – $1.44M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 54%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Middle Tennessee State University
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$109,171
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$108,477
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$99,846
- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$98,967
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$93,230
- Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering (Bachelor's)$92,533
- Engineering-Related Fields (Bachelor's)$83,405
- Psychology, General (Master's)$81,371
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Bachelor's)$80,541
- Air Transportation (Bachelor's)$80,424
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other (Master's)$77,013
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Master's)$76,590
Computer Science at other schools in Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University$160,021
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville$106,312
- Tennessee Technological University$90,521
- University of Memphis$90,207
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga$82,644
- The University of Tennessee-Martin$79,403
- Rhodes College$78,973
- Tennessee State University$67,292
- Austin Peay State University$66,088