What Management Information Systems and Services Graduates Earn

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

For Management Information Systems and Services, the federal file supports exactly three earnings snapshots, and this page prints all of them: $67,958 one year after graduation, $87,041 at four years, $92,753 at five. The weighting note matters: medians here count graduates, not programs, across 9,826 people in the five-year pool, which is why they can sit above or below the unweighted middle program shown in the next column.

From $67,958 in the first year to $92,753 in the fifth, earnings grow 36% ($24,795). 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.

One more cut of the year-one data: Pell recipients in Management Information Systems and Services post a median of $67,094, non-recipients $68,931. That $1,837 gap is the distance between two different student populations studying under one field name, and it narrows or widens by institution, which the program table below hints at.

Inside its own CIP family, Management Information Systems and Services ranks 3 of 19 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $78,466. Its closest sibling is Finance and Financial Management Services at $90,733, below this field's $92,753. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Management Information Systems and Services stands number 27 by five-year earnings and number 38 by first-year earnings, and number 56 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 29 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $19,535 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 102 programs reporting debt. That is 29% of the first-year median earnings, or about 3.4 months of gross pay at $67,958 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $222 a month and interest adds $7,107 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 Management Information Systems and Services, individual programs post five-year medians far from $92,753 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; Georgetown University sits first at $152,450.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of Georgetown University's counted graduates earn less than $152,450. 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 4.0% of the 9,826 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 $152,450 sits 64% above the national field median of $92,753. Its graduates' debt figure is not published, one of the gaps this page leaves visible rather than filling.