Bachelor's · Cobleskill, New York
Is Information Science/Studies at SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 5.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $50,569
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $59,935
- 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
- $83k (likely $83k – $83k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $22k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.5 years (likely 4.5–6.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$31k (likely −$85k – $26k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $255k (likely $122k – $403k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 45%
- 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 Computer Science Principles
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Precalculus
- AP Calculus AB or BC
IB Higher Level
- Computer Science HL
- Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL
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