Keene State College Career Outcomes & Earnings

At Keene State College, mobility is its stronger pillar, but the return picture is uneven. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 31st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $8,033 less than the model expects for similar students. This earnings-beyond-expectations measure, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, falls in the 25th 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 $1,759. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $9,792.

Median earnings are $58,191 four years after completion, in the 44th percentile. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $57,301; the college's figure is $890 above it. Those peer and model comparisons point in different directions.

The modeled range is wide, from $46,926 in the downside earnings scenario to $78,750 in the upside scenario, with $58,191 as the typical scenario. These scenarios are based on the program mix, not observed groups of graduates.

Among programs, median earnings four years after completion are $87,710 in Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians, $82,061 in Nursing, and $78,965 in Computer and Information Sciences. Those program results show why the earnings scenarios span a broad range.

Further study affects how the earnings figure should be read: an estimated 28.1% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. Four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, so people continuing their education are outside that earnings snapshot.

At Keene State College, four-year earnings after completion vary enough across fields that the program selected shapes the return picture. Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians is at the higher end, with median earnings of $87,710 and 72 degrees awarded.

Nursing also posts $82,061 in median earnings, across 24 degrees awarded. More moderate outcomes appear in Psychology, where median earnings are $51,904 four years after completion and 66 degrees were awarded.

Teacher Education records $48,940 with 57 degrees awarded. The contrast between these fields shows that the school’s overall earnings figure can mask materially different program-level results.

Program outcomes vary widely, with Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians standing apart among the largest fields. Across 26 fields with published earnings data, it awarded 72 degrees and had median earnings of $87,710 four years after completion.

Psychology awarded 66 degrees, with median earnings of $51,904 four years after completion. Business Administration and Management awarded 61 degrees and shows $69,674; Teacher Education awarded 57 degrees and shows $48,940 at the same point. Field choice coincides with a broad earnings range.