Graduates earn a median $56,099 two years after finishing, more than 79% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 433 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Yes — graduates earn more than most majors at this level.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $80,391 | not published | 42 |
| 2 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute cost & debt at this university → | not published | $79,284 | not published | 1 |
| 3 | Bellevue University cost & debt at this university → | $68,259 | $78,971 | $95,916 | 55 |
| 4 | Georgetown University | $71,747 | $75,989 | $88,811 | — |
| 5 | The University of Texas at Austin cost & debt at this university → | $75,338 | $75,652 | $86,061 | 178 |
| 6 | University of Notre Dame cost & debt at this university → | $74,178 | $74,307 | $92,866 | 3 |
| 7 | Augsburg University cost & debt at this university → | $57,327 | $74,157 | not published | 25 |
| 8 | Binghamton University | $52,800 | $73,949 | $76,330 | 74 |
| 9 | National University cost & debt at this university → | $63,126 | $73,949 | $70,865 | 31 |
| 10 | Colorado State University Global cost & debt at this university → | $76,872 | $72,022 | $80,318 | — |
| 11 | Villanova University cost & debt at this university → | $71,297 | $71,947 | $86,990 | 5 |
| 12 | George Fox University | not published | $71,575 | not published | — |
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $37,705, so Management Information Systems sits above the middle by $18,394.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Management Information Systems and Services (CIP 5212). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.