Kean University Career Outcomes & Earnings

At Kean University, return is a more qualified part of the picture than access. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 45th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $332 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, sits in the 53rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds $7,185. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $7,517.

Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $59,472 four years after completion; Azimuth places that figure in the 49th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $65,610, leaving earnings below that benchmark by $6,138.

Median earnings sit below peers, while the model result is effectively at its expected level.

The earnings picture varies widely by field at Kean University. Earnings scenarios span from $50,435 on the downside to $74,121 on the upside; these are scenarios based on program mix, not observed groups of graduates.

At the higher end, Nursing has median earnings of $96,821 four years after completion, Computer and Information Sciences has $91,546, and Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications has $72,483. Those field-level figures give the modeled range practical context.

An estimated 31.6% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Four-year earnings cover federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, so those continuing their education are outside that measure. The estimate qualifies how the reported earnings should be read.

Across larger fields at Kean University, earnings differ four years after completion, so a program can matter more than the institutional return picture. Business Administration and Management records median earnings of $65,332 and 281 degrees awarded; Azimuth ranks it #195 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.

Biology posts $61,291 with 218 degrees awarded and an Azimuth rank of #121 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field. Psychology has median earnings of $51,052 across 359 degrees awarded; Azimuth places it #140 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.

The figures separate the higher-earning business and biology fields from the more moderate psychology result.

Azimuth identifies 23 nationally ranked bachelor’s fields at the university, with Science Technologies/Technicians holding the highest placement. Azimuth ranks Science Technologies/Technicians #3 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 37 degrees and had median earnings of $72,277 four years after completion.

Azimuth ranks Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications #4 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 63 degrees and had median earnings of $72,483 four years after completion. Azimuth ranks Special Education and Teaching #12 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 42 degrees and had median earnings of $61,158 four years after completion.