Master's · Troy, New York
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 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 1.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $98,495
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $120,506
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $52k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.2 years (likely 0.8–1.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $323k (likely $176k – $518k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $954k (likely $636k – $1.40M)
- 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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Computer Science (Master's)$200,027
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$141,528
- Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$125,531
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$115,100
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$114,450
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$104,596
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- Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Bachelor's)$103,306
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in New York
- New York University$188,168
- University of Rochester$149,877
- CUNY Bernard M Baruch College$137,636
- Syracuse University$124,750
- St. John's University-New York$121,339
- Columbia University in the City of New York$116,859
- Fordham University$98,704
- Cornell University$96,697
- Hofstra University$90,726
- Pace University$90,347