Graduates of Hamilton College earn median 4-year earnings of $79,130, placing Hamilton in the 86.3rd percentile for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Hamilton #164 for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions — in the 89.0th percentile for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The earnings pattern reflects the institution's concentration in Social Sciences. Economics is the largest program with 88 graduates earning median 4-year earnings of $130,633, and Azimuth ranks the program #12 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions per the program-ranking methodology. Azimuth ranks Political Science and Government #23 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions with 40 graduates earning $88,019, and Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics rounds out the top programs with 34 graduates.
Graduates of Hamilton College earn median 4-year earnings of $79,130, placing Hamilton in the 86.3rd percentile for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Hamilton #164 for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions — in the 89.0th percentile for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The earnings pattern reflects the institution's concentration in Social Sciences. Economics is the largest program with 88 graduates earning median 4-year earnings of $130,633, and Azimuth ranks the program #12 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions per the program-ranking methodology. Azimuth ranks Political Science and Government #23 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions with 40 graduates earning $88,019, and Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics rounds out the top programs with 34 graduates.
Latest FE earnings field: 10-year
Lower quartile, 10-year field
How graduate earnings grow across the currently available FE horizons.
Financial justification for the investment.
Graduates of Hamilton College earn median 4-year earnings of $79,130, placing Hamilton in the 86.3rd percentile for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Hamilton #164 for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions — in the 89.0th percentile for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The earnings pattern reflects the institution's concentration in Social Sciences. Economics is the largest program with 88 graduates earning median 4-year earnings of $130,633, and Azimuth ranks the program #12 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions per the program-ranking methodology. Azimuth ranks Political Science and Government #23 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions with 40 graduates earning $88,019, and Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics rounds out the top programs with 34 graduates.
Program mix and student pathways explain much of the earnings story.
Hamilton College's program mix is anchored in Social Sciences, with Social Sciences accounting for 30% of graduates, followed by Arts at 9% and other STEM fields at 7%. This distribution reflects the college's liberal-arts identity — a portfolio oriented toward analytical, humanistic, and policy-adjacent fields rather than the applied-professional concentrations typical of larger research universities. Across 32 programs, 5 meet Azimuth's ranking threshold, serving roughly 614 students annually. The strongest financial outcomes cluster in economics and quantitative social-science fields. Economics, with a cohort of 88 graduates, leads the institution for early-career pay, with median earnings of $130,633 four years after enrollment; Azimuth ranks the program #11 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, per how Azimuth evaluates programs. Political Science follows with median earnings of $88,019 and a cohort of 40 graduates — Azimuth ranks it #23 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Mathematics and International Relations and National Security Studies, with median earnings of $83,211 and $64,585 respectively, round out the top-earning tier; Azimuth ranks Mathematics #45 and International Relations and National Security Studies #45 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. The most-enrolled programs — Economics (88 graduates), Biology, General (41 graduates), and Political Science (40 graduates) — reflect the breadth of a liberal-arts curriculum, with Research Psychology (36 graduates) and Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services (34 graduates) rounding out the five largest fields. Several of these are grad-school-dependent pathways — particularly the natural and social sciences — where four-year earnings undercount the longer-term trajectory of graduates who continue to law, medical, or doctoral programs. The provides context for how these program families align with national labor-market trends.
Upper quartile, 10-year field
Graduates of Hamilton College earn median 4-year earnings of $79,130, placing Hamilton in the 86.3rd percentile for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Hamilton #164 for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions — in the 89.0th percentile for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The earnings pattern reflects the institution's concentration in Social Sciences. Economics is the largest program with 88 graduates earning median 4-year earnings of $130,633, and Azimuth ranks the program #12 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions per the program-ranking methodology. Azimuth ranks Political Science and Government #23 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions with 40 graduates earning $88,019, and Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics rounds out the top programs with 34 graduates.
