What Engineering, 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 Engineering, Other: $72,063, then $94,278, then $97,669. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 12 programs at year one and 16 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.

From $72,063 in the first year to $97,669 in the fifth, earnings grow 36% ($25,606). 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.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Engineering, Other are $61,682 (received Pell) and $84,117 (did not), $22,435 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, Other ranks 9 of 17 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $97,669. Its closest sibling is Architectural Engineering at $96,182, below this field's $97,669. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Engineering, Other stands number 18 by five-year earnings and number 23 by first-year earnings, and number 105 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 87 places.

The debt side of the same degree

What does the median Engineering, Other graduate owe? $21,295, the graduate-weighted median over 9 programs with published debt figures. The ratio that matters is debt to first-year earnings: 30%, or 3.5 months of gross pay at the $72,063 median. At the 2026-27 undergraduate loan rate of 6.52%, the standard decade of repayment is $242 a month with $7,747 of interest on top. Model a different balance in the student loan payoff calculator before you borrow it, and sanity-check the degree in the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Engineering, Other, individual programs post five-year medians far from $97,669 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; Stanford University sits first at $112,875.

A program median describes that program's own graduates in that program's own labor market; Stanford University at $112,875 is evidence about a place and a mix of students, not a wage offer. Put the same programs' prices next to these figures with the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator before ranking anything.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 33.7% of the 615 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 $112,875 sits 16% above the national field median of $97,669. Its graduates' debt figure is not published, one of the gaps this page leaves visible rather than filling.