Bachelor's · Rochester, New York
Is Management Information Systems and Services at Rochester Institute of Technology 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
- $80,489
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $101,856
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,625
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $171k (likely $159k – $222k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $64k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.5–5.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $231k (likely $99k – $359k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $984k (likely $729k – $1.27M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Other majors at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Management Information Systems and Services at other schools in New York
- Binghamton University$109,721
- Le Moyne College$88,532
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh$85,677
- Iona University$57,507