What Education, Other Graduates Earn

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

The three rows below are the whole earnings story Scorecard can tell about Education, Other: $42,331, then $51,781, then $55,658. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 25 programs at year one and 25 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.

The trajectory is the story here: $42,331 at year one, $51,781 at year four, $55,658 at year five. That is 31% growth across the window Scorecard measures, worth $13,327 a year by the fifth year. Fields with flat early curves repay debt slowly; this one's curve works in the borrower’s favor.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Education, Other are $40,408 (received Pell) and $48,523 (did not), $8,115 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, Education, Other ranks 1 of 6 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $51,190. Its closest sibling is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at $54,736, below this field's $55,658. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Education, Other stands number 135 by five-year earnings and number 122 by first-year earnings, and number 98 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 37 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $20,875 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Education, Other, pooled from 23 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $42,331 that balance is 49% of a year's gross pay, roughly 5.9 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $237 a month and $7,594 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

Program medians scatter widely around the national $55,658 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. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities leads it at $72,218.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of University of Minnesota-Twin Cities's counted graduates earn less than $72,218. Weigh any program here against its own price using the net price estimator and the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 37.8% of the 1,693 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 $72,218 sits 30% above the national field median of $55,658. Its median debt, $17,625, runs below the field median of $20,875, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.