The College of New Jersey Outcomes: $72K Earnings (2026)

How much do The College of New Jersey graduates earn?

The reported median is $72,068 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $57,301 as its benchmark; the difference is $14,767 per year.

The return picture is mixed: Azimuth places The College of New Jersey's return in the 65th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $12,177 less than 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.

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.

An estimated 31.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Because four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, that estimate matters when reading the earnings figure.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $72,068
Rank for difference from expectations: 14th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

The College of New Jersey reported median: $72,068
Peer schools comparable schools · $14,767 below The College of New Jersey: $57,301
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $12,177 above The College of New Jersey: $84,245

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: $56,866
Median · reported: $72,068
Higher estimate: $98,162

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 The College of New Jersey 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.

The College of New Jersey graduates’ reported earnings are $12,177 below that expectation, the 14th 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 The College of New Jersey caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at The College of New Jersey report the highest earnings?

The earnings spread across The College of New Jersey's largest programs is wide, and the highest-earning fields are not the ones that award the most degrees. Accounting graduates earn a median of $111,509 four years after completion, from 61 degrees awarded a year.

Business Administration and Management, the largest program at 261 degrees awarded, reports median earnings of $85,978. Azimuth ranks it #36 nationally within its field.

Biology follows with 118 degrees and earnings of $75,531. At the more moderate end, Teacher Education awards 104 degrees a year and shows median earnings of $59,328.

Azimuth ranks it #21 nationally within its field. A student's field of study here matters a great deal for what they earn four years out.

Program rankings are concentrated in science, education, and business: The College of New Jersey has 19 ranked programs and published earnings data for 23 fields. Azimuth ranks Chemistry #2 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 27 degrees and its median earnings are $90,396 four years after completion.

Special Education and Teaching ranks #5 nationally through Azimuth, with 76 degrees awarded and median earnings of $66,767 four years after completion. Accounting is ranked #15, with 61 degrees awarded and $111,509 in median earnings.

Subject-Area Teacher Education ranks #18, awarded 88 degrees, and reports $62,281 in median earnings four years after completion.

Further analysis

Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix range from $56,866 in the downside scenario to $72,068 in the typical scenario and $98,162 in the upside scenario. Accounting reaches $111,509 four years after completion, while Teacher Education is at $59,328. The spread shows substantial variation by field.

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.

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.