Bachelor's · Platteville, Wisconsin
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Wisconsin-Platteville 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 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $76,202
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $88,778
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,657
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $66k (likely $66k – $91k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $47k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.8–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $210k (likely $87k – $345k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $789k (likely $523k – $1.07M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Computer Science Principles
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- AP Calculus AB or BC
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- Computer Science HL
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Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$119,655
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire$106,724
- Carthage College$106,611
- Marquette University$98,108
- Lakeland University$96,835
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse$93,633
- University of Wisconsin-Stout$82,853
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater$79,799
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point$78,823
- Edgewood University$71,969