Bachelor's · Purchase, New York
Is Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at Manhattanville 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 10 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
- $49,947
- 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
- $91k (likely $91k – $91k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $12k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 10 years (likely 5.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$152k (likely −$235k – −$32k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$3k (likely −$179k – $241k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at other schools in New York
- Hobart William Smith Colleges$68,522
- Syracuse University$61,159
- St. Joseph's University-New York$57,305
- University at Albany$57,286
- Ithaca College$51,001
- Binghamton University$49,366
- Columbia University in the City of New York$47,702
- Hamilton College$42,806
- SUNY at Purchase College$42,372
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh$40,814