Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Management Information Systems (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems earn a median of $83,290 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $58,799 and $111,586. We rank the 118 U.S. colleges whose Management Information Systems programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 8,285 graduates in all. That puts Management Information Systems at #25 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Georgetown University, in District of Columbia, leads at $138,263, 63% above the median ranked school ($84,695). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $74,303 and $95,047, and the lowest earns $40,147. 61 of the 118 ranked schools (52%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 13 public, 7 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. The top 20 are spread across 15 states, with Ohio the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $20,739 a year, against $16,511 across all 118 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $20,125 in federal loans, about 18% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 1.1 years.
Showing the top 50 of 118 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Georgetown University Washington, DC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $138,263 | 33 † | — | $40,815 | 1.7 |
| 2 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public · 4-year | $127,158 | 135 | $18,750 | $19,857 | 0.9 |
| 3 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $122,821 | 48 | — | $26,780 | 1.2 |
| 4 | Villanova University Villanova, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $118,712 | 73 | — | $43,756 | 2.1 |
| 5 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public · 4-year | $116,339 | 129 | $19,300 | $14,355 | 0.7 |
| 6 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public · 4-year | $113,308 | 59 | — | $14,091 | 0.8 |
| 7 | University of Georgia Athens, GA Public · 4-year | $113,184 | 194 | $17,261 | $13,936 | 0.7 |
| 8 | Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH Public · 4-year | $111,158 | 36 † | $25,994 | $28,384 | 1.5 |
| 9 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | $110,192 | 64 | $20,500 | $17,339 | 0.9 |
| 10 | Binghamton University Vestal, NY Public · 4-year | $109,721 | 45 | $16,808 | $21,620 | 1.2 |
| 11 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA Public · 4-year | $108,038 | 37 † | $16,500 | $14,251 | 0.8 |
| 12 | University of Dayton Dayton, OH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $107,354 | 58 | $26,500 | $29,533 | 1.7 |
| 13 | University of Delaware Newark, DE Public · 4-year | $107,062 | 88 | $25,182 | $17,799 | 1.0 |
| 14 | The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL Public · 4-year | $105,393 | 144 | $21,375 | $22,420 | 1.2 |
| 15 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $104,748 | 32 † | $15,000 | $10,258 | 0.6 |
| 16 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Public · 4-year | $104,513 | 148 | $19,750 | $16,674 | 1.0 |
| 17 | Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $103,884 | 107 | $24,166 | $36,079 | 2.1 |
| 18 | Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Public · 4-year | $103,648 | 108 | $17,318 | $11,297 | 0.7 |
| 19 | Howard University Washington, DC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $103,478 | 30 † | $20,500 | $50,539 | 3.2 |
| 20 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $101,790 | 71 | $29,933 | $38,509 | 2.4 |
| 21 | Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ Private nonprofit · 4-year | $101,578 | 69 | $23,250 | $31,446 | 1.9 |
| 22 | Baylor University Waco, TX Private nonprofit · 4-year | $96,148 | 97 | $23,000 | $41,104 | 2.7 |
| 23 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | $95,935 | 134 | $26,000 | $32,875 | 2.2 |
| 24 | University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI Public · 4-year | $95,864 | 53 | $24,735 | $9,492 | 0.6 |
| 25 | Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Public · 4-year | $95,721 | 88 | $26,500 | $17,597 | 1.2 |
| 26 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC Public · 4-year | $95,640 | 47 | — | $15,435 | 1.0 |
| 27 | Colorado State University Global Denver, CO Public · 4-year | $95,518 | 45 | $23,854 | $16,510 | 1.2 |
| 28 | West Virginia University Morgantown, WV Public · 4-year | $95,324 | 67 | $20,898 | $15,634 | 1.0 |
| 29 | Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $95,200 | 25 † | $20,500 | $40,675 | 2.8 |
| 30 | Illinois State University Normal, IL Public · 4-year | $95,120 | 28 † | $17,000 | $19,398 | 1.3 |
| 31 | Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $94,827 | 67 | $23,250 | $34,906 | 2.4 |
| 32 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $94,724 | 69 | $19,500 | $21,315 | 1.4 |
| 33 | DePaul University Chicago, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $94,197 | 84 | $21,500 | $30,902 | 2.1 |
| 34 | National University San Diego, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $94,118 | 41 | $28,687 | $22,878 | 1.6 |
| 35 | Ohio University-Main Campus Athens, OH Public · 4-year | $93,774 | 139 | $25,309 | $21,637 | 1.5 |
| 36 | University of Houston Houston, TX Public · 4-year | $91,983 | 289 | $15,375 | $14,276 | 1.0 |
| 37 | University of North Texas Denton, TX Public · 4-year | $91,514 | 99 | $18,750 | $15,649 | 1.1 |
| 38 | Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, CO Public · 4-year | $91,399 | 115 | $23,075 | $15,327 | 1.2 |
| 39 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK Public · 4-year | $91,291 | 78 | $17,662 | $15,300 | 1.1 |
| 40 | University of Louisville Louisville, KY Public · 4-year | $90,799 | 99 | $22,250 | $17,988 | 1.3 |
| 41 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI Public · 4-year | $90,193 | 69 | $21,374 | $16,550 | 1.3 |
| 42 | The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX Public · 4-year | $90,049 | 79 | $21,500 | $10,836 | 0.8 |
| 43 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public · 4-year | $89,098 | 92 | $19,582 | $24,406 | 1.9 |
| 44 | California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA Public · 4-year | $88,999 | 65 | $21,125 | $7,021 | 0.5 |
| 45 | Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI Public · 4-year | $88,497 | 64 | $26,000 | $9,120 | 0.7 |
| 46 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR Public · 4-year | $88,149 | 48 | $17,500 | $19,604 | 1.5 |
| 47 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Public · 4-year | $87,704 | 40 | $21,700 | $18,059 | 1.4 |
| 48 | Iowa State University Ames, IA Public · 4-year | $87,413 | 117 | — | $18,589 | 1.5 |
| 49 | Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT Public · 4-year | $87,396 | 64 | $23,500 | $16,857 | 1.4 |
| 50 | Appalachian State University Boone, NC Public · 4-year | $87,041 | 97 | $20,667 | $16,836 | 1.3 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Management Information Systems (CIP 5212, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 118.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Management Information Systems earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | $100,564 | 6 | Miami University-Oxford |
| Illinois | $95,120 | 5 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| New York | $94,827 | 3 | Binghamton University |
| California | $88,999 | 5 | University of California-Irvine |
| Michigan | $88,497 | 5 | University of Michigan-Dearborn |
| Connecticut | $87,396 | 3 | Quinnipiac University |
| Washington | $85,967 | 3 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
| Kentucky | $85,697 | 3 | University of Louisville |
| Pennsylvania | $85,611 | 6 | Villanova University |
| Kansas | $85,396 | 3 | University of Kansas |
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