Bachelor's · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Is Research and Experimental Psychology at Harvard University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 4.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,995
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $75,368
- 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
- $81k (likely $81k – $112k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 3.4–6.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $12k (likely −$104k – $126k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $403k (likely $177k – $668k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 97%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Tufts University$79,571
- Amherst College$69,204
- Brandeis University$67,838
- Northeastern University$66,130
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$66,130
- Emmanuel College$60,022
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- Smith College$51,267
- Bay Path University$47,544
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$46,903