Augustana College Outcomes: $60K Median Earnings (2026)

How much do Augustana College graduates earn?

The reported median is $60,377 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $68,250 as its benchmark; the difference is -$7,873 per year.

Augustana College has four-year earnings below both its model expectation and comparable colleges. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $60,377 four years after completion, in the 52nd percentile.

Azimuth places the return in the 37th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $13,708 less than expects for similar students.

Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between graduate earnings and the model’s expectation for similar students, is in the 10th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $4,704.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $18,412. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $3,849.

Comparable institutions (same type and size) have a peer median, the middle value, of $68,250; Augustana’s earnings are $7,873 below it. The model and peer comparisons point in the same direction.

The range of modeled outcomes is wide, so field choice carries real weight in the earnings picture. Scenarios based on the program mix run from $48,707 on the downside to $86,631 on the upside; these are earnings scenarios, not observed groups of graduates.

Among individual fields, median earnings four years after completion are $91,143 in Accounting, $85,993 in Engineering Physics, and $83,339 in Computer Science. Those field-level results help explain the spread between the earnings scenarios.

Further study matters when reading the four-year earnings measure. An estimated 34.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Because the earnings measure covers federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, those continuing their education are outside that snapshot.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $60,377
Rank for difference from expectations: 10th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

Augustana College reported median: $60,377
Peer schools comparable schools · $7,873 above Augustana College: $68,250
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $13,708 above Augustana College: $74,085

School and program earnings use pooled 2017–18 and 2018–19 completion cohorts, measured in 2022 and 2023 and expressed in 2024 dollars. How the model works.

How many Augustana College students return and finish their degrees?

First-time, full-time bachelor’s cohorts · CDS 2025-26

Returned the following fall: 82.0%
Completed within six years: 72.0%
Pell recipients completed within six years: 62.0%

Source: Augustana College Common Data Set 2025-26, B22 retention; B4–B11 six-year completion. Retention and completion follow different entering cohorts.

How could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $48,707
Median · reported: $60,377
Higher estimate: $86,631

Downside shows a lower-earning scenario based on the college’s mix of programs; upside shows a higher-earning scenario. Typical is the school’s reported median four years after completion. These are planning scenarios, not a forecast of your salary or percentiles of individual graduates.

Why the downside matters explores the risk hidden by medians, using older ten-year entrant data. Read about the move to four-year earnings.

Do Augustana College graduates earn more than expected?

Azimuth models what we would expect graduates to earn based on who the college enrolls, how selective it is and its local economy. The difference between that expectation and reported earnings is what Azimuth calls value added.

Augustana College graduates’ reported earnings are $13,708 below that expectation, the 10th percentile for this measure. Unlike a peer comparison, it adjusts for who enrolls.

The breakdown separates the contribution attributed to observed factors from the remaining difference. Neither component establishes how much attending Augustana College caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Augustana College report the highest earnings?

Augustana College’s listed programs span different median earnings four years after completion, from teacher education to accounting. Accounting has median earnings of $91,143 and 31 degrees awarded.

Engineering Physics records $85,993 with 12 degrees awarded. Business Administration and Management posts $81,562 and 51 degrees awarded, making it the largest program among these higher-earning fields.

At a more moderate earnings level, Subject-Area Teacher Education has median earnings of $52,092 and 59 degrees awarded. The higher figures in accounting, engineering physics, and business sit alongside a more moderate teacher-education figure, showing variation across the fields listed.

Program earnings vary widely at Augustana College, so the field chosen matters more than a schoolwide figure alone. Business accounts for 22.6% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, and several of the higher-earning fields sit in or near that family.

Among programs with reported earnings, Accounting awarded 31 degrees and had median earnings of $91,143 four years after completion. Engineering Physics awarded 12 degrees, with median earnings of $85,993.

Computer Science awarded 27 degrees and shows $83,339, while Business Administration and Management awarded 51 degrees and shows $81,562. These field-level outcomes span a broad range even among the higher-earning programs.

Further analysis

Program-mix-based earnings scenarios range from $48,707 on the downside to $60,377 in the typical scenario and $86,631 on the upside. Accounting has median earnings of $91,143 four years after completion, while Subject-Area Teacher Education, the lowest-earning among the largest fields, has $52,092. The spread shows how much modeled earnings can vary by field.

At Augustana College, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $60,377 four years after completion. That is $7,873 below the $68,250 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Graduates earn about $13,708 less than the model expects for similar students. The gap places the university at the 10th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix show a typical outcome of $60,377, with a downside of $48,707 and an upside of $86,631. An estimated 34.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.

Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: methodology.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.