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Earnings, Debt & Completion
What happens to students who enroll at Brigham Young University, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard.
Typical debt at graduation equals about 15% of one year’s median earnings ten years after entry.
Earnings rank: 87th percentile among bachelor’s-degree-focused colleges after a partial adjustment for local wage levels (UT wage index 1.11). This drives the Outcome Rating.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, retrieved Oct 2026. Earnings are for federally aided students who enrolled, whether or not they graduated.
Earnings by Major at Brigham Young University
Median pay of bachelor's degree graduates by field of study, and how each program ranks against every college reporting that major — by raw pay and adjusted for state wage levels. Same school, very different paychecks.
| Major | 1 yr after | 4 yrs after | vs. national | Rank (pay) | Rank (wage-adj.) | Median debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | $90,625 | $142,800 | +33% | #39 of 349 | #39 | $12,000 |
| Computer Engineering | $88,785 | $133,111 | +22% | #21 of 189 | #26 | $11,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services | $83,876 | $129,879 | +56% | #12 of 452 | #15 | $11,625 |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management | $83,533 | $118,606 | +39% | #4 of 99 | #6 | $7,400 |
| Business/Managerial Economics | $75,227 | $117,015 | +50% | #4 of 84 | #7 | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences | $80,934 | $113,338 | +23% | #70 of 459 | #83 | $13,500 |
| Marketing | $64,256 | $112,596 | +62% | #1 of 516 | #4 | $11,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations | $71,163 | $105,544 | +55% | #24 of 1176 | #25 | $11,000 |
| Chemical Engineering | $77,565 | $101,726 | +4% | #42 of 158 | #88 | $14,680 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering | $77,060 | $99,774 | -1% | #110 of 258 | #201 | $12,500 |
| Construction Management | $73,678 | $98,073 | +3% | #18 of 57 | #35 | $12,364 |
| Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | $64,061 | $97,085 | +59% | #4 of 67 | #4 | — |
| Accounting and Related Services | $68,393 | $96,632 | +27% | #70 of 796 | #108 | $9,127 |
| Human Resources Management and Services | $59,842 | $96,354 | +42% | #6 of 187 | #7 | — |
| Statistics | $63,671 | $96,164 | +4% | #19 of 50 | #22 | $10,312 |
| Economics | $63,332 | $95,227 | +15% | #83 of 368 | #94 | $11,000 |
| Manufacturing Engineering | $69,520 | $92,122 | +4% | #5 of 15 | #7 | $11,000 |
| Mechanical Engineering | $67,668 | $90,634 | -2% | #170 of 318 | #256 | $10,544 |
| Political Science and Government | $47,020 | $83,209 | +31% | #32 of 565 | #43 | $10,646 |
| Civil Engineering | $68,685 | $81,928 | -5% | #162 of 233 | #212 | $8,500 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | $51,436 | $80,841 | +27% | #9 of 178 | #21 | $11,974 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | $79,777 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Graphic Communications | $38,725 | $73,941 | +71% | #4 of 59 | #4 | — |
| Physics | $68,664 | $73,747 | -4% | #76 of 107 | #75 | — |
| International Relations and National Security Studies | $50,563 | $71,622 | +8% | #37 of 118 | #46 | — |
| Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services | $46,439 | $71,066 | +21% | #1 of 12 | #3 | — |
| Communication and Media Studies | $46,747 | $68,843 | +22% | #60 of 660 | #71 | $19,680 |
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences | $25,101 | $68,321 | +10% | #17 of 64 | #21 | $13,000 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology | $68,084 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Housing and Human Environments | $67,737 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Area Studies | $37,019 | $67,310 | +19% | #15 of 70 | #18 | $11,229 |
| Microbiological Sciences and Immunology | $31,833 | $66,603 | +6% | #22 of 49 | #34 | $11,087 |
| Geography and Cartography | $40,051 | $64,875 | +12% | #33 of 117 | #42 | $11,210 |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology | $31,225 | $63,291 | -3% | #68 of 110 | #81 | $11,625 |
| Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | $40,002 | $63,189 | +15% | #51 of 225 | #70 | $12,500 |
| Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies | $47,596 | $63,080 | +24% | #4 of 63 | #9 | $12,250 |
| Psychology | $33,694 | $62,106 | +22% | #69 of 1027 | #106 | $11,000 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology | $24,143 | $61,078 | +25% | #8 of 62 | #6 | $10,419 |
| Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services | $34,279 | $60,469 | +21% | #17 of 90 | #22 | $11,742 |
| Sociology | $35,404 | $60,277 | +14% | #78 of 462 | #103 | $14,000 |
| Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions | $54,333 | $60,265 | -21% | #91 of 93 | #93 | — |
| Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | $60,240 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences | $27,986 | $60,065 | -4% | #36 of 67 | #46 | $12,344 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | $62,164 | $59,080 | -34% | #965 of 966 | #965 | $7,830 |
| Zoology/Animal Biology | $24,457 | $57,020 | +29% | #6 of 52 | #14 | — |
| History | $38,643 | $54,457 | +7% | #144 of 459 | #209 | $11,750 |
| English Language and Literature | $29,305 | $54,290 | +12% | #151 of 576 | #186 | $10,494 |
| Film/Video and Photographic Arts | $25,506 | $53,695 | +23% | #17 of 144 | #25 | $11,894 |
| Design and Applied Arts | $33,915 | $52,929 | +3% | #148 of 299 | #174 | $12,065 |
| Public Health | $29,025 | $51,996 | -12% | #153 of 215 | #178 | $10,317 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study data. Earnings are for graduates who received federal aid and were working; small programs are not reported.
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Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition & Fees
| Category | In-State | Out-of-State |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,496 | $6,496 |
| Total Cost (On-Campus) | $22,992 | $22,992 |
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