North Central College Career Outcomes & Earnings

North Central College has a middle-of-the-pack return picture, with earnings below the model's expectation and the comparable-peer median. Azimuth places its return pillar in the 50th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $4,996 less than the model expects for similar students. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between graduate earnings and the model's expectation for similar students, is in the 37th 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 $4,855. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $9,851.

Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $61,656 four years after completion, in the 56th percentile. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250, with $6,594 below it.

Program choice marks a wide range in modeled earnings at the university. The downside scenario is $49,627, whereas the upside scenario is $81,634; both are earnings scenarios from the program mix, not observed groups.

Among program medians four years after completion, Management Science reaches $105,350, Finance reaches $81,562, and Economics reaches $80,494. Those program results help show why the modeled range is broad.

An estimated 29.5% 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 graduates in further study are outside that snapshot.

Earnings vary sharply across fields at North Central College, from a small high-earning program to larger programs with more moderate results four years after completion. Management Science records median earnings of $105,350 and 5 degrees awarded.

Finance follows at $81,562 across 31 degrees awarded, while Accounting reports $78,125 and 37 degrees awarded. At the more moderate end among the largest fields, Teacher Education has median earnings of $49,224 four years after completion and 47 degrees awarded.

The contrast between these fields shows that the earnings picture depends substantially on the field selected.

Business accounts for 29.4% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, alongside several fields with substantially different reported earnings. For each field below, the figures pair degrees awarded in one academic year with median earnings four years after completion: Management Science had 5 degrees awarded and $105,350 in median earnings; Finance had 31 degrees awarded and $81,562; Economics had 15 degrees awarded and $80,494; Computer Science had 19 degrees awarded and $79,877; and Accounting had 37 degrees awarded and $78,125.

The spread across these fields makes the choice of field especially consequential: the reported medians for the business-oriented options sit above those for several other large areas of study.