Business & management

Economics

Arizona State University Digital Immersion · Scottsdale, AZ

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Reported median debt$23,000Reported for this university and degree

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$43,823
Same subject · national$46,087
Business & management · national$42,682

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $40,947–$47,414.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Texas A & M University-College StationEconomics$49,814
Rutgers University-New BrunswickEconomics$47,153
Georgia State UniversityEconomics$43,290
University of California-RiversideEconomics$38,937
University of South Carolina-ColumbiaEconomics$39,369
Florida International UniversityEconomics$41,007
The University of Texas at DallasEconomics$42,682
University of HoustonEconomics$40,768
University of DelawareEconomics$50,231
University of California-Santa CruzEconomics$44,356
Texas Tech UniversityEconomics$44,970
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityEconomics$48,198
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗