What Educational Administration and Supervision 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 $45,145 year-one median and the $46,675 year-five median for Educational Administration and Supervision come from federal earnings records pooled across 76 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (2,925 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

Earnings in this field climb $1,530 between the first and fifth year, a 3% rise that trails the all-fields pattern (the median field in this dataset pays $45,010 at year one and $65,763 at year five). Early-career growth this shape usually means the first job is a foothold: licensure, a portfolio, or a first promotion does the heavy lifting.

Scorecard separates the first-year figure by Pell history for this field: $44,586 for graduates who received Pell, $40,024 for those who did not. The $4,562 difference tracks institutional mix and starting networks far more than it tracks the credential itself, and it is printed here because a Pell student comparing programs deserves the unblended number.

Inside its own CIP family, Educational Administration and Supervision ranks 6 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 Levels and Methods at $48,305, above this field's $46,675. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Educational Administration and Supervision stands number 175 by five-year earnings and number 91 by first-year earnings, and number 179 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 4 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $38,881 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 15 programs reporting debt. That is 86% of the first-year median earnings, or about 10.3 months of gross pay at $45,145 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $442 a month and interest adds $14,145 over the life of the loan. Price your own borrowing with the student loan payoff calculator, and test the whole degree in the college ROI calculator or the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Educational Administration and Supervision, individual programs post five-year medians far from $46,675 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; University of Delaware sits first at $74,293.

Treat the top of this table as a research list, not a ranking to enroll by: medians reflect local labor markets and student mix as much as teaching. The honest comparison pairs each program's earnings here with its net price from the net price estimator and its four-year total from the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 26.4% of the 2,780 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 $74,293 sits 59% above the national field median of $46,675. Its median debt, $25,000, runs below the field median of $38,881, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.