Bachelor's · Midland, Michigan
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General at Northwood 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 4.8 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
- $68,533
- 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
- $110k (likely $110k – $129k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.8 years (likely 3.3–8.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $32k (likely −$109k – $188k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $397k (likely $111k – $730k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 64%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in Michigan
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$172,904
- Kalamazoo College$117,826
- Michigan State University$116,905
- Wayne State University$104,630
- Grand Valley State University$94,330
- Hope College$92,116
- Walsh College$91,273
- Oakland University$90,737
- Saginaw Valley State University$90,681
- Eastern Michigan University$90,620