Bachelor's · Notre Dame, Indiana
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University of Notre Dame 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $96,227
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $121,191
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $107k (likely $107k – $107k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $83k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.2 years (likely 1.8–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $525k (likely $347k – $721k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.51M (likely $1.11M – $1.95M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 95%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at University of Notre Dame
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (First professional)$182,186
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (First professional)$166,604
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$160,313
- Finance and Financial Management Services (First professional)$152,667
- Computational Science (First professional)$145,374
- Applied Mathematics (First professional)$143,935
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$142,970
- Law (First professional)$142,699
- Marketing (First professional)$137,699
- Engineering Science (Master's)$137,274
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$124,557
- Mathematics and Statistics, Other (Bachelor's)$123,663
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Indiana
- Purdue University-Main Campus$105,396
- Indiana University-Indianapolis$97,841
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology$96,448
- Purdue University Northwest$96,206
- Trine University$92,945
- Valparaiso University$87,944