Lindenwood University Outcomes: $58K Median Earnings (2026)

How much do Lindenwood University graduates earn?

The reported median is $58,207 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $68,250 as its benchmark; the difference is -$10,043 per year.

Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $58,207. That places the university at the 44th percentile nationally, and it is $10,043 below the $68,250 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Graduates earn about $2,001 less than expects for similar students. That puts the gap at the 47th percentile.

Azimuth places the university at the 46th percentile for return. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $7,412. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $9,413.

The modeled range tied to the program mix runs from a downside earnings scenario of $44,482 to an upside scenario of $70,079 four years after completion. These scenarios describe possible mixes of lower- and higher-earning fields, not observed groups of graduates.

At the higher end, median earnings four years after completion are $98,053 in Computer Systems Analysis, $89,675 in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, and $86,526 in Computer and Information Sciences. The field-level results span well beyond the central institutional result.

Graduate study affects how the four-year earnings figure should be read. An estimated 25.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix.

Because the earnings measure covers completers who are working and not enrolled, those pursuing further study are outside it.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $58,207
Rank for difference from expectations: 47th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

Lindenwood University reported median: $58,207
Peer schools comparable schools · $10,043 above Lindenwood University: $68,250
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $2,001 above Lindenwood University: $60,208

School and program earnings use pooled 2017–18 and 2018–19 completion cohorts, measured in 2022 and 2023 and expressed in 2024 dollars. How the model works.

How many Lindenwood University students return and finish their degrees?

First-time, full-time bachelor’s cohorts · CDS 2025-26

Returned the following fall: 70.3%
Completed within six years: 55.6%
Pell recipients completed within six years: 45.1%

Source: Lindenwood University Common Data Set 2025-26, B22 retention; B4–B11 six-year completion. Retention and completion follow different entering cohorts.

How could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $44,482
Median · reported: $58,207
Higher estimate: $70,079

Downside shows a lower-earning scenario based on the college’s mix of programs; upside shows a higher-earning scenario. Typical is the school’s reported median four years after completion. These are planning scenarios, not a forecast of your salary or percentiles of individual graduates.

Why the downside matters explores the risk hidden by medians, using older ten-year entrant data. Read about the move to four-year earnings.

Do Lindenwood University graduates earn more than expected?

Azimuth models what we would expect graduates to earn based on who the college enrolls, how selective it is and its local economy. The difference between that expectation and reported earnings is what Azimuth calls value added.

Lindenwood University graduates’ reported earnings are $2,001 below that expectation, the 47th percentile for this measure. Unlike a peer comparison, it adjusts for who enrolls.

The breakdown separates the contribution attributed to observed factors from the remaining difference. Neither component establishes how much attending Lindenwood University caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Lindenwood University report the highest earnings?

Lindenwood University shows a clear split between its higher-earning computing fields and several larger programs with more moderate earnings four years after completion. Computer Systems Analysis reports median earnings of $98,053 and 6 degrees awarded, while Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management records $89,675 across 24 degrees awarded.

Among larger fields, Business/Commerce has median earnings of $63,524 with 188 degrees awarded. Psychology is at the more moderate end, with $46,138 and 61 degrees awarded.

The contrast shows that the earnings picture depends substantially on field, including within programs with different award volumes.

Business accounts for 29.8% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, making it the largest program family at Lindenwood University. Earnings differ widely across fields, so the largest family does not tell the whole return story.

Among fields with published earnings, Computer Systems Analysis awarded 6 degrees and had median earnings of $98,053 four years after completion. Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management awarded 24 degrees and shows $89,675, while Computer and Information Sciences awarded 28 degrees and shows $86,526.

Health and Medical Administrative Services adds 19 degrees awarded and median earnings of $69,956. These fields sit well above the earnings shown in several of the university’s largest programs.

Further analysis

At Lindenwood University, field choice corresponds with a broad range in modeled earnings. Based on the program mix, the downside earnings scenario is $44,482, the typical scenario is $58,207, and the upside scenario is $70,079.

Computer Systems Analysis reaches $98,053 four years after completion, whereas Psychology has $46,138, showing how the modeled range varies by field rather than observed groups.

Earnings at Lindenwood University sit below the peer median: federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $58,207 four years after completion. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250, placing the university below it by $10,043.

Azimuth places this earnings measure in the 44th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 2,089 completers. Earnings scenarios based on the program mix put the typical scenario at the reported median, with a downside scenario of $44,482 and an upside scenario of $70,079.

Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, offer a second lens. Graduates earn about $2,001 less than the model expects for similar students.

An estimated 25.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. Earnings fall below both the peer median and the model expectation.

Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: methodology.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.