Bachelor's · Queens, New York
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at CUNY Queens College 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 0.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $44,184
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $72,204
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,480
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $5k (likely $5k – $7k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $34k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.5 years (likely 0.4–0.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $156k (likely $80k – $238k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $574k (likely $398k – $770k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at CUNY Queens College
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$112,903
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$111,721
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Graduate certificate)$109,328
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$94,526
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$93,857
- Urban Studies/Affairs (Master's)$89,294
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$87,964
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Master's)$87,317
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$86,240
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$85,359
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Graduate certificate)$84,899
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$83,444
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at other schools in New York
- College of Staten Island CUNY$75,637
- CUNY Hunter College$73,857
- Monroe University$73,537
- St. John's University-New York$69,439
- CUNY York College$67,862
- Hofstra University$67,847
- New York University$64,640
- Molloy University$62,479
- State University of New York at Cortland$62,275
- CUNY Brooklyn College$58,828