Bachelor's · Elon, North Carolina
Is Political Science and Government at Elon 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 4.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $47,740
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $96,333
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $152k (likely $152k – $152k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $59k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.6–5.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $218k (likely $119k – $347k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $914k (likely $679k – $1.22M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 81%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Political Science and Government at other schools in North Carolina
- Duke University$88,459
- Wake Forest University$85,668
- High Point University$72,564
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$72,001
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$62,824
- East Carolina University$60,419
- University of North Carolina Wilmington$58,258
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$57,273
- Davidson College$55,748
- University of North Carolina Asheville$55,698