Graduates earn a median $69,535 two years after finishing, more than 68% of master's majors. Measured across 152 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 | Columbia University in the City of New York | $153,730 | $160,605 | $167,216 | — |
| 2 | University of Virginia-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | $139,548 | $144,240 | not published | — |
| 3 | University of Oregon cost & debt at this university → | $90,629 | $117,572 | not published | — |
| 4 | Florida State University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $104,192 | not published | 40 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | not published | $92,632 | $98,201 | — |
| 6 | Western Governors University cost & debt at this university → | $87,608 | $90,998 | $97,288 | 672 |
| 7 | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | $73,893 | $86,867 | not published | — |
| 8 | Capella University cost & debt at this university → | $89,295 | $84,653 | $82,691 | — |
| 9 | University of Alabama at Birmingham cost & debt at this university → | $78,497 | $84,653 | $94,486 | 47 |
| 10 | University of Maryland Global Campus | not published | $83,768 | $94,669 | — |
| 11 | Northern Kentucky University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $82,440 | not published | — |
| 12 | Webster University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $80,147 | $85,287 | — |
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 master's major in this dataset reports $54,713, so Management Information Systems sits above the middle by $14,822.
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.