Master's · Lynchburg, Virginia
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General at Liberty University 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 1.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $99,688
- 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
- $31,302
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $33k (likely $33k – $33k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $36k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in VA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.7 years (likely 1.2–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $169k (likely $12k – $331k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $564k (likely $245k – $915k)
- 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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- Industrial Engineering (Bachelor's)$94,928
- Education, General (Doctoral)$90,299
Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in Virginia
- University of Virginia-Main Campus$143,020
- George Mason University$142,690
- Marymount University$133,718
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University$103,683
- Old Dominion University$102,482