Farmingdale State College Career Outcomes & Earnings

At Farmingdale State College, affordability is stronger than return, whose evidence points in different directions. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 41st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $4,433 less than the model expects for similar students. The earnings-beyond-expectations measure, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, falls in the 38th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds $7,788. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $12,221.

Four years after completion, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $65,444; Azimuth places that figure in the 67th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $57,301, putting the college above it by $8,143.

The return picture is mixed: school-level earnings are above the peer median alongside the model result.

Program choice leaves a wide modeled range in earnings at Farmingdale State College. The downside earnings scenario is $54,295, and the upside scenario is $91,029 four years after completion.

These are scenarios estimated from the program mix rather than observed groups. Among selected fields, median earnings four years after completion are $108,029 in Nursing, $104,169 in Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions, and $91,941 in Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians. Those field results help explain the distance between the modeled bounds.

Graduate-study participation changes how the four-year earnings figure should be read. An estimated 21.8% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Because reported earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, those continuing study are outside that snapshot.

At Farmingdale State College, program earnings differ sharply by field four years after completion, with health-related options at the higher end and larger programs in more moderate territory. Nursing recorded median earnings of $108,029 and 82 degrees awarded.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions posted $104,169 in median earnings, alongside 20 degrees awarded. Among larger fields, Business Administration and Management had median earnings of $61,497 with 353 degrees awarded.

Azimuth ranks it #163 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field. Science, Technology and Society recorded $54,746 and 267 degrees awarded.

The contrast between higher- and moderate-earning fields makes program choice central to reading the college-wide earnings figure.

Farmingdale State College has 14 ranked bachelor’s field and a program mix with sharply different earnings levels. Azimuth ranks Security Science and Technology #3 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 180 degrees and its completers had median earnings of $60,464 four years after completion.

Among the larger fields, Science, Technology and Society awarded 267 degrees, with median earnings of $54,746 four years after completion. Security Science and Technology awarded 180 degrees and had median earnings of $60,464, while Nursing awarded 82 degrees and had median earnings of $108,029. The range makes the chosen field especially relevant to the earnings picture.