What Business/Corporate Communications Graduates Earn
How much do Business/Corporate Communications bachelor's graduates earn?
The median Business/Corporate Communications bachelor's graduate starts at $39,635 and reaches $60,499 by year five in the federal Scorecard data (24 programs reporting at that horizon). Median debt at graduation: $25,000.
For a student weighing Business/Corporate Communications: the starting median is $39,635, the five-year median is $60,499, and the median borrower owes $25,000. Here is every one of those numbers with its workings shown.
Updated November 5, 2026
Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)
The three rows below are the whole earnings story Scorecard can tell about Business/Corporate Communications: $39,635, then $55,840, then $60,499. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 21 programs at year one and 24 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.
| Horizon | Median earnings (graduate-weighted) | Median program (unweighted) | Graduates counted | Share earning above the high-school threshold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year after graduation | $39,635 | $39,635 | 1,838 | 65.0% |
| 4 years after graduation | $55,840 | $55,840 | 2,065 | n/p |
| 5 years after graduation | $60,499 | $60,499 | 2,107 | 75.9% |
Five years out, the median graduate earns $60,499, which is $20,864 more than the year-one median of $39,635 (53% growth). Set against the median field overall ($45,010 at year one, $65,763 at year five), this field starts below the pack and ends below it.
By Pell status, the year-one medians for Business/Corporate Communications are $39,387 (received Pell) and $39,647 (did not), $260 apart. The split is a reminder that a field median averages over very different starting points; the institution a student picks inside the field moves their personal figure more than the field label does.
Inside its own CIP family, Business/Corporate Communications ranks 17 of 19 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $78,466. Its closest sibling is Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations at $59,993, below this field's $60,499. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.
Ranked across all 182 published fields, Business/Corporate Communications stands number 113 by five-year earnings and number 139 by first-year earnings, and number 165 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 52 places.
The debt side of the same degree
Across the 17 programs that report debt for Business/Corporate Communications, the median graduate owes $25,000. Set beside the $39,635 year-one median, the debt is 63% of first-year gross earnings, about 7.6 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $284 monthly and $9,095 in interest. The student loan payoff calculator replays that schedule with your numbers, and the college ROI calculator weighs the full cost against the earnings table above.
Where graduates of this field earn the most
Program medians scatter widely around the national $60,499 five-year figure. The table ranks the reporting programs by their five-year median, keeping only programs with at least 30 graduates in that count so a tiny cohort cannot top the list by luck. Marquette University leads it at $87,227.
| Institution | Median earnings, 5 years | Median earnings, 1 year | Median debt | Graduates counted (5yr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $87,227 | $53,775 | $16,927 | 47 |
| Chapman University | $81,974 | $53,571 | $19,500 | 121 |
| Bentley University | $76,175 | $71,584 | $27,000 | 45 |
| CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | $73,605 | $51,187 | $12,098 | 380 |
| Roosevelt University | $64,381 | n/p | n/p | 47 |
High program medians concentrate in high-wage metros and selective intakes, so read $87,227 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 30.4% of the 2,107 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 $87,227 sits 44% above the national field median of $60,499. Its median debt, $16,927, runs below the field median of $25,000, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.
Frequently asked questions
How much do Business/Corporate Communications graduates earn?
The national median is $39,635 one year after graduation and $60,499 five years after, across the 21 bachelor's programs reporting 1-year earnings to College Scorecard (October 2026 release), weighted by graduates counted.
How much debt do Business/Corporate Communications graduates carry?
The median cumulative federal loan debt at graduation is $25,000. On a standard 10-year plan at 6.52% that is $284 a month and $9,095 of interest in total.
How were the Business/Corporate Communications national figures computed?
Scorecard publishes one median per program; this page takes the median of those program medians weighted by each program's graduates counted (1,838 people at year one), and prints the unweighted median program beside it. The field cleared a publication bar of at least 10 programs reporting at every horizon.
Is a degree in Business/Corporate Communications worth it?
The inputs are on this page: $60,499 median earnings at year five against $25,000 median debt. The verdict depends on your actual cost, so run your numbers through the college ROI calculator and the college major ROI calculator.