What Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other Graduates Earn

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

For Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other, the federal file supports exactly three earnings snapshots, and this page prints all of them: $66,436 one year after graduation, $81,077 at four years, $86,833 at five. The weighting note matters: medians here count graduates, not programs, across 515 people in the five-year pool, which is why they can sit above or below the unweighted middle program shown in the next column.

Five years out, the median graduate earns $86,833, which is $20,397 more than the year-one median of $66,436 (31% growth). Set against the median field overall ($45,010 at year one, $65,763 at year five), this field starts above the pack and ends above it.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other are $70,877 (received Pell) and $72,711 (did not), $1,834 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, Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other ranks 6 of 10 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $86,833. Its closest sibling is Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians at $87,414, above this field's $86,833. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other stands number 37 by five-year earnings and number 40 by first-year earnings, and number 127 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 90 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $22,099 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 8 programs reporting debt. That is 33% of the first-year median earnings, or about 4.0 months of gross pay at $66,436 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $251 a month and interest adds $8,040 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

Program medians scatter widely around the national $86,833 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. East Carolina University leads it at $99,262.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of East Carolina University's counted graduates earn less than $99,262. 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 70.5% of the 515 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 $99,262 sits 14% above the national field median of $86,833. Its median debt, $19,500, runs below the field median of $22,099, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.