Skidmore College Career Outcomes & Earnings

At Skidmore College, the four-year earnings picture falls below both the peer median and the model’s expectation. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $61,281 four years after completion, placing earnings in the 55th percentile.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250, and the college’s figure is $6,969 below it. Graduates earn about $19,432 less than the model expects for similar students.

That earnings-beyond-expectations result is in the 4th 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 $2,928.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $22,360. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 29th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The peer comparison, model result, and return standing point in the same direction.

Program choice corresponds with a broad range of modeled earnings outcomes at Skidmore College. These earnings scenarios run from $47,250 on the downside to $85,884 on the upside, rather than describing observed groups of graduates.

The typical earnings scenario is $61,281. At the program level, median earnings four years after completion are $104,708 in Computer and Information Sciences, $93,229 in Business/Commerce, and $69,091 in Political Science. Those figures help show why the modeled range is wide.

An estimated 38.2% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. The four-year earnings measure covers federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, so graduates who remain enrolled are outside that earnings snapshot; the reported median has that boundary.

Program choice makes a marked difference in the earnings picture at Skidmore College. Computer and Information Sciences had median earnings of $104,708 four years after completion, with 19 degrees awarded in one academic year.

Business/Commerce recorded $93,229 and accounted for 87 degrees awarded, making it the larger of the higher-earning fields here. The pattern is more moderate in other prominent fields.

Political Science posted $69,091 with 42 degrees awarded, whereas Psychology recorded $47,282 across 78 degrees awarded. These program results show why the school-level earnings figure can look different depending on the field a student chooses.

Social Sciences accounts for 18.4% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, making it the largest program family, while Business represents 12.8%. Program earnings vary considerably across the college’s larger fields four years after completion.

Business/Commerce awarded 87 degrees and had median earnings of $93,229 four years after completion. Psychology awarded 78 degrees, with median earnings of $47,282.

Fine and Studio Arts awarded 42 degrees and posted $53,602, while Political Science awarded 42 degrees and posted $69,091. English Language and Literature awarded 33 degrees, with median earnings of $51,029.