Rider University Career Outcomes & Earnings

Rider University has a mixed earnings picture: its median is $63,250 four years after completion, placing it in the 61st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Yet graduates earn about $4,328 less than the model expects for similar students.

Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, sits in the 39th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 50th 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 $5,727. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $10,055.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions in the same type and size, is $68,250, and the university’s median is $5,000 below it. The relative earnings percentile and the model and peer comparisons point in different directions.

Program choice accounts for a broad range in modeled earnings at Rider University. The downside earnings scenario is $49,483, and the upside scenario is $84,143; both are estimated from the program mix rather than observed groups of graduates.

Among higher-earning fields, Accounting has median earnings of $91,950 four years after completion, Finance reaches $88,405, and Management Science reaches $82,193. These field results give the modeled range a concrete shape.

Further study should be kept in view when reading the four-year earnings figure: an estimated 26.1% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. The earnings measure covers completers who are working and not enrolled, so those pursuing further study are outside that snapshot.

At Rider University, program-level earnings range from comparatively high business fields to a more moderate large program, so the overall median does not describe every field. Four years after completion, Accounting has median earnings of $91,950 and 65 degrees awarded.

Finance follows at $88,405, across 33 degrees awarded. Health Sciences sits in the higher-earning group at $79,664 with 21 degrees awarded.

By contrast, Psychology, one of the university's larger fields, records $57,202 and 74 degrees awarded. The difference between these higher- and moderate-earning fields shows why a prospective major is central to interpreting the university's four-year earnings.

Business accounts for 35.3% of bachelor’s degrees awarded at Rider University, and published earnings data cover 22 fields. The largest fields show a broad range of median earnings four years after completion, so the field chosen matters to the outcome picture.

Psychology awarded 74 degrees and had median earnings of $57,202 four years after completion. Teacher Education awarded 74 degrees, with median earnings of $60,178.

Accounting awarded 65 degrees and had median earnings of $91,950. Business Administration and Management awarded 62 degrees, with median earnings of $69,423.