University of Rochester Career Outcomes & Earnings

Four years after finishing, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $87,197. That figure falls at the 93rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Azimuth places the return pillar in the 88th percentile. The peer median for comparable institutions (same type and size) is $68,250, leaving the university $18,947 above that benchmark.

Graduates earn about $5,997 more than the model expects for similar students. That places the earnings-beyond-expectations result at the 74th percentile.

The share the model assigns to measured factors—field of study, enrollment and the local labor market—adds $8,721. The remainder the model does not explain subtracts $2,724. Of those measured factors, the STEM component alone adds $4,853.

Earnings vary widely across the fields represented at University of Rochester. Earnings scenarios from its program mix run from $48,194 in the downside case to $120,908 in the upside case, with $87,197 as the typical scenario, all four years after completion.

Published program medians show that individual fields do not sit neatly inside those scenarios. Computer Science completers earn median earnings of $155,464 four years after completion, compared with $109,324 in Economics and $105,183 in Electrical Engineering.

Graduate study matters when reading the four-year earnings figure. An estimated 33.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix.

Because the earnings measure covers completers who are working and not enrolled, it describes a subset of graduates rather than every graduate.

At University of Rochester, program choice matches a broad earnings spread across fields with national rankings. In Economics, median earnings are $109,324 four years after completion; 103 degrees were awarded, and Azimuth ranks the field #43 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Computer Science shows $155,464 in median earnings, 161 degrees awarded, and an Azimuth national rank of #23 among nonprofit four-year institutions. Social Sciences posts $68,333, with 25 degrees awarded and an Azimuth rank of #5 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Mathematics records $94,178, 70 degrees awarded, and Azimuth's #30 national rank among nonprofit four-year institutions. The higher- and moderate-earning fields show why four-year figures need to be read by field.

At University of Rochester, nationally ranked fields show distinct earnings patterns four years after completion. Azimuth lists 17 bachelor's programs with national ranks among nonprofit four-year institutions in their fields.

Azimuth ranks Social Sciences #5 nationally; it awarded 25 degrees, and its median earnings are $68,333 four years after completion. Management Science ranks #11 nationally through Azimuth, with 218 degrees awarded and median earnings of $102,625.

Azimuth places Computer Science at #23 nationally, alongside 161 degrees awarded and $155,464 in median earnings. Earnings vary across these ranked fields.