Master's · Williamsburg, Virginia
Is Student Counseling and Personnel Services at William & Mary worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $60,042
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $61,085
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $48,519
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $51k (likely $51k – $51k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$6k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in VA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$295k (likely −$359k – −$229k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$383k (likely −$496k – −$255k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at William & Mary
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$133,994
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$127,851
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$125,353
- Law (First professional)$115,663
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$111,366
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$110,116
- Economics (Bachelor's)$105,467
- International Relations and National Security Studies (Bachelor's)$91,065
- Sociology (Bachelor's)$87,655
- Mathematics (Bachelor's)$87,170
- Public Policy Analysis (Master's)$80,402
- Chemistry (Bachelor's)$78,270
Student Counseling and Personnel Services at other schools in Virginia
- Virginia State University$66,322
- George Mason University$63,423
- University of Virginia-Main Campus$60,095
- Virginia Commonwealth University$58,540
- Old Dominion University$58,539
- James Madison University$58,228
- Liberty University$56,174
- Regent University$55,572
- Radford University$54,651
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University$46,870