Bachelor's · Worcester, Massachusetts
Is Political Science and Government at Assumption 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $62,876
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $122k (likely $122k – $122k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $20k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.4 years (likely 5.3–15.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$139k (likely −$242k – −$10k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $91k (likely −$118k – $360k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 73%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$102,181
- Economics (Bachelor's)$90,662
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$87,681
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$83,706
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$80,220
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$75,091
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication (Bachelor's)$74,900
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$68,156
- Criminology (Bachelor's)$67,883
- Sociology (Bachelor's)$67,635
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$67,523
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$66,917
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- Harvard University$95,838
- Williams College$88,339
- College of the Holy Cross$88,088
- Boston College$86,537
- Tufts University$78,180
- Stonehill College$76,123
- Brandeis University$74,018
- Northeastern University$73,539
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$73,539
- Suffolk University$73,484