Governors State University Career Outcomes & Earnings

Access is Governors State University strongest pillar, but return is weaker. Azimuth places its return pillar in the 29th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $5,141 less than the model expects for similar students. Earnings beyond expectations—the gap between graduate earnings and the model expectation for similar students—are in the 36th percentile in that set.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $2,913. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $8,054.

Federally aided completers working and not enrolled earn a median of $56,405 four years after completion, in the 37th percentile. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $57,301; earnings are $896 below it. The model result and peer comparison point different ways.

Program-level outcomes extend both below and above the university’s modeled scenario band. The program-mix earnings scenarios range from $47,107 on the downside to $69,165 on the upside, and they are models rather than observed graduate groups.

Four years after completion, median earnings are $47,048 in Psychology, $59,562 in Business Administration and Management, and $88,391 in Nursing. Those field results show a wider spread than the earnings scenarios alone.

Graduate study affects how to read the earnings figure. An estimated 26.1% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix.

Four-year earnings count completers who are working and not enrolled, so graduates continuing their education are outside that earnings snapshot.

The largest programs at Governors State University sit in fields with moderate earnings, while the highest pay comes from a much smaller program. Liberal Arts and General Studies awards 103 degrees a year and graduates earn a median of $50,703 four years after completion.

Azimuth ranks it #110 nationally in its field. Business Administration and Management and Psychology each award 87 degrees, with medians of $59,562 and $47,048 respectively.

Accounting graduates earn $61,223 from 48 degrees a year, ranking #239 nationally. The highest earnings belong to Nursing, at $88,391, but it awards only 17 degrees a year.

Computer Science follows at $79,154 from 31 degrees, ranking #171 nationally. The earnings picture is split: the programs that pay best are not the ones producing the most graduates.

Governors State University has 12 nationally ranked bachelor's programs, and the strongest of them sit in health and social services. Health and Medical Administrative Services ranks #64 in its field, with 22 degrees awarded and median earnings of $53,227 four years after completion.

Social Work follows at #80 nationally, from 22 degrees a year. The largest programs tell a different story.

Liberal Arts and General Studies awards the most degrees at 103, and its completers earn a median of $50,703. Business Administration and Management and Psychology are close behind, each at 87 degrees.

The highest earnings come from a smaller program. Nursing graduates earn $88,391, from 17 degrees a year. Computer Science is next at $79,154, with 31 degrees awarded.