Cognitive Science
65 colleges offer Cognitive Science in the College Scorecard data. Graduates leave with an average federal debt of $44,620, from $32,178 at the lowest program to $58,808 at the highest. One year after graduating they earn $39,001 on average, from $20,134 at the lowest program to $62,295 at the highest.
Is a Cognitive Science degree worth it?
Across 16 bachelor's programs that report earnings, the median pays its graduates $37,992 a year after graduation, and the middle half pay between $32,896 and $43,376. The median for all majors is $37,050. At the median program, graduates who borrowed owe $28,477. Debt is 0.75x first-year earnings, which ranks 67th of 147 majors, where 1st carries the least debt for the pay.
These are earnings one year after graduating, for students who received federal aid. Majors that lead to graduate school, or to careers that start slowly, look worse here than they will ten years on.
Details
- Number of Offering Colleges: 65
- Average Debt on Graduation: $44,620
- Expected Earnings 1 Year After: $39,001
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Debt Mean
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Average federal loan debt at graduation — can be skewed by outliers, unlike the median
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Debt Median
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Median federal loan debt at graduation — the middle value, less affected by extreme outliers
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Earnings ▼
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Median earnings 1 year after graduation for this major
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| University of British Columbia | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Toronto | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Stanford University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Wisconsin-Stout | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Marquette University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Beloit College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Richmond | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| The University of Texas at Dallas | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Southern Methodist University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Vanderbilt University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Brown University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Swarthmore College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Lehigh University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Haverford College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Franklin and Marshall College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| George Fox University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Case Western Reserve University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| United States Military Academy | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| State University of New York at Oswego | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| New York University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Dartmouth College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Washington University in St Louis | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Carleton College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Simmons University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Hampshire College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Loyola University New Orleans | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Indiana University-Bloomington | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| DePauw University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Evansville | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Georgia | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Yale University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Scripps College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Pomona College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Pitzer College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Claremont McKenna College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of California-Irvine | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| California State University-Fresno | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| California State University-Stanislaus | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Johns Hopkins University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $20,134 |
| University of Delaware | Bachelor's Degree | $58,808 | No data | $21,268 |
| University of California-Merced | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $27,909 |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus | Bachelor's Degree | $45,788 | No data | $31,726 |
| University of California-Santa Cruz | Bachelor's Degree | No data | $41,443 | $33,286 |
| Vassar College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $35,926 |
| University of California-Davis | Bachelor's Degree | $38,587 | $25,098 | $36,727 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $37,741 |
| Occidental College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $38,243 |
| University of California-San Diego | Bachelor's Degree | $32,178 | $21,899 | $39,060 |
| Rice University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $42,585 |
| Tufts University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $43,242 |
| University of California-Los Angeles | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $43,778 |
| University of Southern California | Bachelor's Degree | No data | $28,477 | $49,368 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $60,724 |
| University of California-Berkeley | Bachelor's Degree | $47,739 | $35,569 | $62,295 |
| Daniel Webster College | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Duke University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Chapman University | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |