Bachelor's · Cortland, New York
Is Criminology at State University of New York at Cortland 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 6.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $38,764
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,788
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $94k (likely $94k – $111k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.8 years (likely 5.6–8.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$65k (likely −$132k – −$5k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $225k (likely $82k – $375k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 72%
- 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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- Le Moyne College$65,956
- University at Albany$61,102
- Niagara University$60,995
- Hofstra University$60,697
- St. John Fisher University$60,481
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice$57,396
- SUNY Old Westbury$52,598
- University at Buffalo$41,461