Graduates earn a median $61,630 two years after finishing, more than 70% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 365 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 | Bentley University cost & debt at this university → | $71,445 | $79,653 | $93,407 | 69 |
| 2 | Drake University cost & debt at this university → | $64,552 | $78,971 | $92,797 | 51 |
| 3 | University of Wisconsin-Madison cost & debt at this university → | $70,478 | $78,814 | $91,078 | 61 |
| 4 | St. John's University-New York | $68,739 | $78,719 | not published | 29 |
| 5 | New York University cost & debt at this university → | $79,980 | $76,460 | $98,075 | 245 |
| 6 | University of Maryland-College Park cost & debt at this university → | $67,675 | $72,762 | $83,667 | 121 |
| 7 | Lehigh University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $71,015 | not published | — |
| 8 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | $67,610 | $70,680 | $81,822 | 486 |
| 9 | University of St Thomas | $67,265 | $69,897 | $79,826 | 35 |
| 10 | Temple University cost & debt at this university → | $60,681 | $69,732 | $77,040 | 38 |
| 11 | University of Denver cost & debt at this university → | $57,943 | $69,338 | not published | 50 |
| 12 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign cost & debt at this university → | $62,949 | $68,592 | $74,006 | 53 |
Two medians are worth separating. $61,630 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $52,107 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.
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 $36,497, so Management Sciences sits above the middle by $25,133.
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 Sciences and Quantitative Methods (CIP 5213). 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.