US Colleges: Cost, Graduation Rates and Earnings

1,768 colleges in every state, with what students actually pay, how many graduate and what they earn later, from the US Department of Education. Add the campuses you have visited to your map.

Low price, high earnings

Four-year colleges with at least 3,000 undergraduates and a graduation rate of 60% or more, ranked by median earnings 10 years after starting divided by the yearly net price.

CollegeStateNet price a yearGraduateEarnings after 10 years
CUNY Bernard M Baruch CollegeNY$65770%$83,742
Princeton UniversityNJ$7,81597%$133,523
California State University-FullertonCA$5,11568%$69,015
University of FloridaFL$5,96992%$78,456
Yale UniversityCT$11,34096%$118,356
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA$14,81596%$152,553
Stanford UniversityCA$12,30792%$125,340
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main CampusGA$12,02894%$114,210
University of Michigan-DearbornMI$7,86361%$66,897
California State Polytechnic University-PomonaCA$9,40468%$77,464
Rice UniversityTX$11,16495%$90,773
Florida State UniversityFL$8,60586%$68,225
University of Illinois ChicagoIL$9,54061%$73,666
California State University-Long BeachCA$9,42670%$69,554
University of South FloridaFL$8,64878%$63,660
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNC$11,30591%$81,094
Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY$15,37095%$109,430
University of California-BerkeleyCA$14,53894%$100,212
Washington University in St LouisMO$13,36093%$91,497
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIL$13,04286%$87,599
University of California-San DiegoCA$14,79486%$96,197
University of Michigan-Ann ArborMI$14,36293%$92,832
Vanderbilt UniversityTN$15,49793%$99,080
Harvard UniversityMA$19,14897%$121,957
Michigan Technological UniversityMI$13,44670%$84,681

By state: AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY

Alaska 2

Alabama 26

Arkansas 16

Arizona 10

California 169

Colorado 22

Connecticut 21

District of Columbia 8

Delaware 5

Florida 64

Georgia 46

Hawaii 8

Iowa 32

Idaho 9

Illinois 58

Indiana 39

Kansas 22

Kentucky 28

Louisiana 24

Massachusetts 71

Maryland 34

Maine 17

Michigan 53

Minnesota 43

Missouri 45

Mississippi 23

Montana 9

North Carolina 59

North Dakota 9

Nebraska 19

New Hampshire 11

New Jersey 43

New Mexico 7

Nevada 5

New York 140

Ohio 57

Oklahoma 25

Oregon 25

Pennsylvania 96

Rhode Island 10

South Carolina 31

South Dakota 11

Tennessee 50

Texas 114

Utah 12

Virginia 45

Vermont 8

Washington 38

Wisconsin 31

West Virginia 15

Wyoming 3

US Department of Education College Scorecard, October 2026 release. Main campuses of four-year colleges with 500 or more undergraduates and two-year colleges with 2,000 or more, open and not online-only. Numbers after a name are undergraduates.