Bachelor's · Syracuse, New York
Is Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at Syracuse University 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 8.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,135
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $65,692
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $184k (likely $184k – $206k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $28k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.8 years (likely 6.7–12.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$111k (likely −$203k – −$12k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $240k (likely $25k – $450k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 81%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Hobart William Smith Colleges$68,522
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- University at Albany$57,286
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- 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
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh$40,814