Master's · New York, New York
Is Special Education and Teaching at CUNY City College worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 1.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $90,939
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $101,613
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,565
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $19k (likely $19k – $19k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $33k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.3 years (likely 1.0–1.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $160k (likely $63k – $271k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $581k (likely $354k – $835k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at CUNY City College
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$149,434
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$148,354
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$142,345
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$117,131
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$116,238
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$99,125
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,698
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,270
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Bachelor's)$95,685
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Master's)$90,944
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$88,659
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor's)$87,957
Special Education and Teaching at other schools in New York
- Pace University$91,867
- CUNY Brooklyn College$90,918
- CUNY Hunter College$88,978
- Manhattan University$87,967
- College of Staten Island CUNY$86,157
- CUNY Queens College$85,359
- CUNY Lehman College$84,758
- St. John's University-New York$84,195
- Long Island University$81,836
- Adelphi University$80,788