Brandeis University Outcomes: $77K Median Earnings (2026)

How much do Brandeis University graduates earn?

The reported median is $76,742 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $68,250 as its benchmark; the difference is $8,492 per year.

Brandeis University has four-year median earnings above comparable peers. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn $76,742 four years after completion, in the 85th percentile.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250; Brandeis University is $8,492 above it. Azimuth puts the return in the 80th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $217 less than expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. The earnings-beyond-expectations result is in the 54th 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 $3,251. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $3,468.

Outcomes vary considerably by field, with earnings scenarios extending from $57,215 on the downside to $108,662 on the upside. These are scenarios drawn from the program mix rather than observed groups of graduates.

Among published program medians four years after completion, Computer Science reaches $123,460, Business/Commerce reaches $108,405, and Economics reaches $95,872. The program figures help explain the breadth of the modeled range.

Graduate study changes how the four-year earnings snapshot should be read. An estimated 41.1% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, so those continuing study are outside that snapshot.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $76,742
Rank for difference from expectations: 54th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

Brandeis University reported median: $76,742
Peer schools comparable schools · $8,492 below Brandeis University: $68,250
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $217 above Brandeis University: $76,959

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 Brandeis University students return and finish their degrees?

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

Returned the following fall: 86.0%
Completed within six years: 81.0%
Pell recipients completed within six years: 81.0%

Source: Brandeis University 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: $57,215
Median · reported: $76,742
Higher estimate: $108,662

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 Brandeis University 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.

Brandeis University graduates’ reported earnings are $217 below that expectation, the 54th 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 Brandeis University caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Brandeis University report the highest earnings?

The program picture separates higher-earning options from more moderate ones four years after completion. Computer Science has median earnings of $123,460 and 99 degrees awarded, while Business/Commerce records $108,405 with 127 degrees awarded.

These are the higher earnings figures among the fields cited here. Among larger programs with more moderate earnings, Biology records $58,384 and 154 degrees awarded.

Research and Experimental Psychology has median earnings of $67,838 with 114 degrees awarded. The cited programs range from the moderate figures in biology and psychology to markedly higher figures in computer science and business.

Business/Commerce combines a large degree count with the strongest earnings figure among the largest fields at Brandeis University. Published earnings data cover 19 bachelor’s programs, making field-level results useful alongside the schoolwide picture.

Among the largest fields, Biology awarded 154 degrees, with median earnings of $58,384 four years after completion. Business/Commerce awarded 127 degrees and had median earnings of $108,405.

Economics awarded 125 degrees, with median earnings of $95,872. Research and Experimental Psychology awarded 114 degrees and had median earnings of $67,838.

Public Policy Analysis awarded 111 degrees, with median earnings of $75,580. The figures show that outcomes differ across Brandeis’s largest fields.

Further analysis

Program choice makes the modeled earnings range wide at Brandeis. Scenarios grounded in the program mix put the downside at $57,215, the typical result at $76,742, and the upside at $108,662.

Computer Science anchors the higher end at $123,460 four years after completion, while Biology, the lowest-earning largest program, is at $58,384. The spread shows substantial variation by field.

Four years after completion, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled record a median of $76,742 at Brandeis University. That median falls in the 85th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, drawn from a cohort of 660 completers.

The earnings-beyond-expectations metric weighs actual pay against the model's forecast for similar students; graduates earn about $217 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. Earnings scenarios anchored to the program mix span from a downside of $57,215 to an upside of $108,662, with a typical outcome of $76,742.

An estimated 41.1% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. The above-average median and the wide scenario range contrast with the near-zero earnings-beyond-expectations result, so the early-pay picture is mixed.

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.