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

How much do Stetson University graduates earn?

The reported median is $57,773 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $68,250 as its benchmark; the difference is -$10,477 per year.

At Stetson University, access is the strongest , leaving the return figures to read carefully. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $57,773 four years after completion, placing them in the 43rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250; earnings are $10,477 below it. Graduates earn about $5,691 less than expects for similar students.

Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, is in the 34th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Among nonprofit four-year institutions, Azimuth places the return pillar in the 28th percentile.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $3,086. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $8,777. The expected-earnings shortfall and peer comparison point the same way.

Earnings differ markedly across the modeled program-mix scenarios, from $44,904 on the downside to $75,827 on the upside; these are scenarios rather than observed groups. Among individual fields, median earnings four years after completion are $85,033 in Finance, $78,682 in Accounting, and $63,707 in Marketing. The field figures help explain why the modeled range is wide.

An estimated 30.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Since four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, further study belongs in the context for reading those earnings.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $57,773
Rank for difference from expectations: 34th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

Stetson University reported median: $57,773
Peer schools comparable schools · $10,477 above Stetson University: $68,250
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $5,691 above Stetson University: $63,464

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 could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $44,904
Median · reported: $57,773
Higher estimate: $75,827

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 Stetson 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.

Stetson University graduates’ reported earnings are $5,691 below that expectation, the 34th 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 Stetson University caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Stetson University report the highest earnings?

Program-level earnings at Stetson University vary across the fields with the strongest published outcomes, making field choice central to the return picture. Finance has median earnings of $85,033 four years after completion, with 46 degrees awarded.

Accounting follows at $78,682 and 30 degrees awarded. More moderate figures appear in Marketing, at $63,707 with 17 degrees awarded, and Kinesiology and Physical Education, at $61,974 with 11 degrees awarded.

The contrast between the higher-earning business fields and these more moderate fields shows that four-year earnings differ materially by program.

Business is the largest program family, accounting for 30.9% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, and earnings vary widely among the university’s largest fields. Health Sciences awarded 76 degrees and had median earnings of $52,591 four years after completion.

Business Administration and Management awarded 65 degrees, with median earnings of $59,629 four years after completion. Finance awarded 46 degrees and shows $85,033 in median earnings four years after completion.

Music awarded 43 degrees, with median earnings of $41,298 four years after completion. Political Science awarded 40 degrees and had median earnings of $52,667 four years after completion. The figures show a wide earnings spread across the largest fields.

Further analysis

Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix put downside earnings at $44,904, typical earnings at $57,773, and upside earnings at $75,827. Finance reaches $85,033 four years after completion, whereas Music, the lowest-earning among the largest programs with published earnings, is at $41,298. The spread shows that the field chosen matters to the modeled range.

The earnings picture at Stetson University is restrained: federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled report median earnings of $57,773 four years after completion. The measure draws on an earnings cohort of 824 completers.

Azimuth puts those earnings in the 43rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Program-mix earnings scenarios place the downside at $44,904 and the upside at $75,827; the typical scenario matches the reported median.

An estimated 30.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Graduates earn about $5,691 less than the model expects for similar students.

The modeled range sits alongside earnings below the model’s expectations, leaving a restrained picture.

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.