Bachelor's degree · Mathematics and statistics · CIP 27.01
Mathematics: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 1,087 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, together awarding 17,356 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $53,372 one year after finishing and $74,715 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $19,500 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Compare Mathematics programs on one chart
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Each dot is one institution's program; branch campuses share their institution's figures and appear as one dot. Dashed lines mark the median for all colleges. Showing 168 of 1,067; programs missing either value are left out (the Scorecard withholds figures for small programs).
Colleges with a bachelor's in Mathematics
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin · Public | TX | 278 | $69,157 | $93,298 | $15,511 |
| Southern New Hampshire University Manchester · Private nonprofit | NH | 249 | $53,870 | $75,079 | $26,999 |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park · Public | MD | 220 | $78,103 | $108,336 | $19,140 |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla · Public | CA | 218 | $54,763 | $83,654 | $15,250 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst · Public | MA | 213 | $65,340 | $90,251 | $21,500 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor · Public | MI | 208 | $80,188 | $123,984 | $19,383 |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine · Public | CA | 207 | $49,371 | $82,200 | $11,000 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison · Public | WI | 198 | $64,314 | $93,581 | $15,000 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 190 | $61,949 | $101,484 | $12,291 |
| University of Chicago Chicago · Private nonprofit | IL | 188 | n/a | $171,304 | $12,000 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle · Public | WA | 174 | $62,769 | $92,558 | $13,913 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge · Private nonprofit | MA | 173 | $141,075 | $201,041 | n/a |
| New York University New York · Private nonprofit | NY | 163 | $70,817 | $102,315 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville · Private nonprofit | TN | 148 | $120,462 | $142,158 | $15,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill · Public | NC | 139 | $64,598 | $95,748 | $13,960 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park · Public | PA | 136 | $67,059 | $84,810 | $23,756 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis · Public | MN | 136 | $68,669 | $92,727 | $20,500 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus · Public | OH | 133 | $58,620 | $80,217 | $14,637 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 133 | $62,714 | $81,375 | $18,500 |
| University of California-Riverside Riverside · Public | CA | 130 | $39,461 | $68,403 | $17,902 |
| Binghamton University Vestal · Public | NY | 118 | $57,469 | $90,269 | $19,500 |
| University of Florida Gainesville · Public | FL | 112 | $54,003 | $103,440 | $11,000 |
| Cornell University Ithaca · Private nonprofit | NY | 110 | $114,798 | $155,471 | $11,235 |
| Stony Brook University Stony Brook · Public | NY | 109 | $50,246 | $82,221 | $18,968 |
| University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara · Public | CA | 109 | $54,285 | $92,300 | $13,000 |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo · Public | NY | 104 | $54,205 | $75,006 | $17,615 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 103 | $53,517 | $81,995 | $17,500 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 102 | $59,448 | $101,998 | $13,955 |
| Northeastern University Boston · Private nonprofit | MA | 99 | $94,730 | $126,208 | $22,064 |
| Boston University Boston · Private nonprofit | MA | 97 | $63,944 | $75,378 | $23,500 |
| Harvard University Cambridge · Private nonprofit | MA | 95 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick · Public | NJ | 95 | $67,622 | $92,993 | $19,500 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York · Private nonprofit | NY | 91 | $55,980 | $129,413 | $12,098 |
| The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Public | AL | 88 | $54,703 | $75,530 | $21,100 |
| California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino · Public | CA | 86 | $39,398 | $62,574 | $13,000 |
| Yale University New Haven · Private nonprofit | CT | 85 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona · Public | CA | 84 | $34,880 | $65,764 | $19,000 |
| Duke University Durham · Private nonprofit | NC | 82 | $130,467 | n/a | $13,875 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore · Private nonprofit | MD | 82 | $84,101 | $150,482 | n/a |
| Amherst College Amherst · Private nonprofit | MA | 81 | $76,249 | $172,920 | $12,000 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta · Public | GA | 81 | n/a | n/a | $22,000 |
| St Olaf College Northfield · Private nonprofit | MN | 76 | $54,452 | $104,025 | $25,065 |
| California State University-Long Beach Long Beach · Public | CA | 73 | $43,949 | $66,748 | $11,000 |
| University of Arizona Tucson · Public | AZ | 73 | $48,983 | $90,692 | $13,885 |
| University of Colorado Boulder Boulder · Public | CO | 73 | $49,977 | $90,201 | $21,000 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg · Public | VA | 72 | $67,231 | $86,592 | $19,187 |
| University of California-Davis Davis · Public | CA | 71 | $49,163 | $73,734 | $10,900 |
| Michigan State University East Lansing · Public | MI | 69 | $50,873 | $74,162 | $20,982 |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville · Public | VA | 69 | n/a | $97,398 | $19,500 |
| California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo · Public | CA | 68 | $52,033 | $87,645 | $16,851 |
Quick facts: Mathematics
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in Mathematics?
- The College Scorecard lists 1,087 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Mathematics.
- How much do Mathematics graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $53,372 one year after graduation (230 institutions reporting) and $74,715 five years after graduation (296 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do Mathematics graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($201,041), Amherst College ($172,920), University of Chicago ($171,304), Tufts University ($160,936), and Dartmouth College ($156,136).
- How much student debt do Mathematics graduates have?
- The median institution's Mathematics graduates leave with $19,500 in federal student loans (192 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most Mathematics degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: The University of Texas at Austin (278), Southern New Hampshire University (249), University of Maryland-College Park (220), University of California-San Diego (218), and University of Massachusetts-Amherst (213).
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How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in Mathematics (CIP code 27.01), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.