What Architectural Sciences and Technology Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $58,424 year-one median and the $76,256 year-five median for Architectural Sciences and Technology come from federal earnings records pooled across 84 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (2,074 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

From $58,424 in the first year to $76,256 in the fifth, earnings grow 31% ($17,832). For scale, the median bachelor's field in the Scorecard file grows from $45,010 to $65,763 over the same span, so this field's early-career slope is gentler than typical.

One more cut of the year-one data: Pell recipients in Architectural Sciences and Technology post a median of $56,449, non-recipients $63,568. That $7,119 gap is the distance between two different student populations studying under one field name, and it narrows or widens by institution, which the program table below hints at.

Inside its own CIP family, Architectural Sciences and Technology ranks 1 of 4 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $71,657. Its closest sibling is City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning at $74,002, below this field's $76,256. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Architectural Sciences and Technology stands number 60 by five-year earnings and number 55 by first-year earnings, and number 164 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 104 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $25,000 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Architectural Sciences and Technology, pooled from 49 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $58,424 that balance is 43% of a year's gross pay, roughly 5.1 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $284 a month and $9,095 in total interest. Your own balance and rate belong in the student loan payoff calculator; the degree-level verdict belongs in the college ROI calculator and the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

Where a student studies inside this field matters at least as much as the field itself. These five programs post the strongest five-year medians in Architectural Sciences and Technology among programs with at least 30 graduates in the count, led by University of Washington-Seattle Campus at $109,140, against a national field median of $76,256.

High program medians concentrate in high-wage metros and selective intakes, so read $109,140 as a market fact before reading it as a quality verdict. Costs for the same programs are checkable in the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 36.9% of the 764 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $109,140 sits 43% above the national field median of $76,256. Its median debt, $15,323, runs below the field median of $25,000, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.