Bachelor's · Oswego, New York
Is Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at State University of New York at Oswego 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 15.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $27,478
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $43,587
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $69k (likely $69k – $89k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $6k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 15.3 years (likely 9.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$204k (likely −$269k – −$143k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$114k (likely −$234k – $22k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- 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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AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
IB Higher Level
- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
- Film HL
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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
- Manhattanville University$46,500
- Hamilton College$42,806
- SUNY at Purchase College$42,372