The return picture is mixed: Azimuth places The College of New Jersey's return pillar in the 65th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $12,177 less than the model expects for similar students.
That earnings-beyond-expectations result sits in the 14th percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $10,243.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $22,420. Median earnings are $72,068 four years after completion, in the 79th percentile.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $57,301; earnings are $14,767 above it. The peer comparison and model result pull in opposite directions.
At The College of New Jersey, earnings four years after completion are high across a sizeable federally aided completer cohort. Median earnings are $72,068 for completers who are working and not enrolled, placing the figure in the 79th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions; the cohort includes 2,042 completers.
Program-mix earnings scenarios place typical earnings at $72,068, with a downside scenario of $56,866 and an upside scenario of $98,162, all four years after completion. An estimated 31.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. Graduates earn about $12,177 less than the model expects for similar students.
The College of New Jersey records a median of $72,068 four years after completion among federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled. That amount lands in the 79th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions in the Azimuth national coverage set.
Against comparable institutions (same type and size), this amount is $14,767 above the $57,301 median. Azimuth ranks The College of New Jersey #520 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Graduates earn about $12,177 less than the model expects for similar students. The earnings gap sits at the 14th 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 $10,243. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain by itself subtracts $22,420.
Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $1,863, with business, education and engineering as the largest program families. Earnings scenarios for graduates, estimated from the program mix, range from $56,866 on the downside to $98,162 on the upside.
An estimated 31.4% of graduates continue to graduate study after completing, based on the program mix.
Earnings vary widely across the earnings scenarios rather than describing separate observed graduate groups. Four years after completion, the downside earnings scenario is $56,866 and the upside scenario is $98,162, with the typical scenario at $72,068.
Published earnings cover 23 programs. At the upper end, Accounting completers earn $111,509, Computer and Information Sciences completers earn $105,377, and Nursing completers earn $104,369, each four years after completion. The modeled range shows variation across program clusters.
At The College of New Jersey, the cost picture is mixed: borrowing and average net price both run above comparable institutions. Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $23,250, above the $21,229 median at comparable institutions (same type and size).
That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $264 a month if repaid over ten years. Average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $27,646, above the $14,068 peer median.
Parent PLUS borrowers are a separate population, with median debt of $30,611. Graduates earn about $12,177 less than the model expects for similar students.
Above-peer borrowing and price coincide with earnings below the model's expectation.