What Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods 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 $63,116 year-one median and the $83,075 year-five median for Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods come from federal earnings records pooled across 403 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (13,529 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

Earnings in this field climb $19,959 between the first and fifth year, a 32% rise that beats 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.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods are $61,356 (received Pell) and $67,385 (did not), $6,029 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, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods ranks 7 of 19 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $78,466. Its closest sibling is General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations at $81,609, below this field's $83,075. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods stands number 47 by five-year earnings and number 46 by first-year earnings, and number 85 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 38 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $20,500 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, pooled from 136 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $63,116 that balance is 32% of a year's gross pay, roughly 3.9 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $233 a month and $7,458 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 $83,075 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. New York University leads it at $146,530.

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 3.5% of the 8,461 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 $146,530 sits 76% above the national field median of $83,075. Its median debt, $13,250, runs below the field median of $20,500, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.