Baylor Career Outcomes: $70K Median Earnings (2026)

How much do Baylor graduates earn?

The reported median is $69,608 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $83,615 as its benchmark; the difference is -$14,007 per year.

Baylor University graduates earn a median of $69,608 four years after completion, placing the university in the 75th percentile nationally. That figure is below the peer median of $83,615—the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size)—by $14,007.

Azimuth ranks the return in the 70th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $5,549 less than expects for similar students, a result in the 34th percentile.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $9,008. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $14,557. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $987.

Earnings scenarios range from $51,772 on the downside to $99,582 on the upside, a spread that shows the variation in the university's program mix. At the higher end, Computer Science graduates earn a median of $128,411 four years after completion, from 18 degrees awarded a year.

General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations follows at $125,167, and Business/Commerce comes in at $124,434.

Four-year earnings figures exclude anyone still enrolled in school. An estimated 29.9% of graduates continue in graduate study under the program mix model.

Those students sit outside the earnings data, and the reported medians reflect only the portion of completers who have entered the workforce.

How many Baylor first-year students return?

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

Returned the following fall: 89.3%

Source: Baylor University Common Data Set 2025-26, B22 retention.

How could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $51,772
Median · reported: $69,608
Higher estimate: $99,582

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 Baylor 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.

Baylor graduates’ reported earnings are $5,549 below that expectation, the 34th 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 Baylor caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Baylor report the highest earnings?

The highest-earning programs at Baylor University are concentrated in business and computing. Computer Science leads at a median of $128,411 four years after completion, though it awarded only 18 degrees.

Business/Commerce and General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations follow at $124,434 and $125,167, respectively, with 60 and 28 degrees awarded. Among the university's largest programs, earnings vary by field.

Finance, with 181 degrees awarded, shows a median of $102,812. Nursing reaches $89,510 on 317 degrees.

Biology and Communication and Media Studies sit lower, at $57,155 and $58,915, reflecting the spread between higher-earning business and health fields and more moderate-earning sciences and communication.

Baylor publishes earnings data for 47 bachelor's programs. The five largest by degrees awarded show a wide earnings spread four years after completion: Nursing (317 degrees awarded, median $89,510), Biology (246 degrees, $57,155), Marketing (188 degrees, $78,398), Finance (181 degrees, $102,812), and Communication and Media Studies (176 degrees, $58,915).

The highest-earning programs reach well into six figures. Computer Science leads at $128,411 with 18 degrees awarded.

Next come General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations at $125,167 and Business/Commerce at $124,434. Finance, also among the largest programs, reports $102,812, and Accounting rounds out the top five at $102,011.

Further analysis

Earnings scenarios run from $51,772 on the downside to $99,582 on the upside, with $69,608 as the typical outcome, each grounded in the program mix. Computer Science reaches $128,411 four years after completion, while Biology sits at $57,155 among the largest fields, illustrating the wide range by field.

Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $69,608 at Baylor University. Azimuth places that figure in the 75th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 3,203 completers.

Graduates earn about $5,549 less than the model expects for similar students. That places the gap at the 34th percentile.

Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix put the downside at $51,772 and the upside at $99,582. An estimated 29.9% 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.