Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $65,925, in the 68th percentile nationally. That is $8,624 above the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Azimuth places the return pillar at the 75th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $9,483 more than the model expects for similar students.
That puts the gap at the 82nd percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds $10,702.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $1,219. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $3,441.
At $65,925, median earnings four years after completion give University of Missouri-Kansas City graduates an outcome above much of nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth places that earnings figure in the 68th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 1,914 federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled.
Graduates earn about $9,483 more than the model expects for similar students, describing earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students. A typical earnings scenario, based on the program mix, is $65,925 four years after completion.
An estimated 32.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. The earnings result and modeled graduate-study estimate describe different possible paths after completion.
At four years after completion, University of Missouri-Kansas City has median earnings of $65,925, placing it in the 68th percentile of nonprofit four-year institutions. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $57,301, leaving the university $8,624 above that benchmark.
Graduates earn about $9,483 more than the model expects for similar students. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, sits in the 82nd 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 $10,702. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $1,219.
Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $3,441. Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix run from $45,717 in the downside scenario to $86,500 in the upside scenario.
Azimuth ranks the university #366 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. The peer comparison and modeled expectation point in the same direction.
Business/Commerce is the largest program, with 237 degrees awarded and median earnings of $63,569 four years after completion; Azimuth ranks it #28 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field.
The range of modeled outcomes is wide: the downside earnings scenario is $45,717, while the upside scenario reaches $86,500 four years after completion. Program medians show why field matters.
Computer Science completers earn $97,043, Mechanical Engineering completers earn $90,588, and Nursing completers earn $88,249 four years after completion. These are program-level medians, not guarantees for individual graduates.
At University of Missouri-Kansas City, the cost side is favorable: borrower debt and aid-recipient net price are below comparable-institution medians. Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $18,750.
It is below the $21,229 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $213 a month if repaid over ten years.
Graduates earn about $9,483 more than the model expects for similar students. Average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $13,310, below the $14,068 peer median.
The below-peer debt and price figures point in the same direction as the modeled earnings result.