Bachelor's · Winter Park, Florida
Is Computer Engineering at Full Sail University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $74,902
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $100,334
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $32,253
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $159k (likely $159k – $159k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $64k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4 years (likely 3.3–5.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $271k (likely $132k – $421k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.02M (likely $730k – $1.39M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 42%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- University of Florida$128,140
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- Florida International University$101,224
- Florida Gulf Coast University$98,650
- Florida Polytechnic University$92,109
- Florida Atlantic University$90,664