University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Career Outcomes & Earnings

For federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, $69,251 is the median four years after completion, placing earnings in the 75th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. That is above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of $57,301, a difference of $11,950.

Azimuth puts the university’s return pillar in the 68th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $10,508 more than the model expects for similar students, placing earnings beyond expectations—the gap between graduate earnings and the model’s expectation for similar students—in the 84th percentile.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $5,664. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $4,844. The peer comparison and model measure point the same way.

Earnings scenarios at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth range from $49,125 in the downside case to $90,168 in the upside case. The typical scenario aligns with the reported school-level median, and all of these are scenarios based on program mix rather than observed groups.

At the upper end of published program earnings four years after completion, Computer Engineering shows median earnings of $98,642, Computer and Information Sciences shows $96,727, and Electrical Engineering shows $94,683. The program medians and modeled range describe a broad spread in earnings outcomes.

Graduate study is part of the context for reading the earnings figure. An estimated 30.0% of graduates continue to graduate study, an estimate derived from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Because the four-year earnings measure includes people who are working and not enrolled, it does not describe those continuing directly into graduate study.

Nursing is the higher-earning ranked program in this set, whereas the other fields sit in a more moderate range four years after completion. Management Information Systems and Services has median earnings of $83,480 four years after completion, with 47 degrees awarded; Azimuth ranks it #43 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.

Visual and Performing Arts posts $38,676 with 27 degrees awarded, and Azimuth ranks it #18 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field. Sociology and Anthropology records $41,529 on 20 degrees awarded and ranks #3 nationally by Azimuth among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions has $84,323 with 21 degrees awarded; Azimuth ranks it #21 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.

Program results vary across the 21 fields with Azimuth national ranks at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Azimuth ranks Sociology and Anthropology #3 nationally in its field; it awarded 20 degrees and its completers had median earnings of $41,529 four years after completion.

Visual and Performing Arts is ranked #18 nationally by Azimuth in its field, with 27 degrees awarded and median earnings of $38,676 four years after completion. Azimuth ranks Management Information Systems and Services #43 nationally in its field; 47 degrees were awarded, and median earnings reached $83,480 four years after completion.