Engineering

Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$63,829Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$17,018Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's
Annual credentials awarded16Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 1 year after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$66,730
Engineering · national$62,136

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $61,020–$76,613.

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 · 1 year after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Washington University in St LouisBiomedical/Medical Engineering$78,785
Tufts UniversityBiomedical/Medical Engineering$61,020
Johns Hopkins UniversityChemical Engineering$63,005
Rice UniversityElectrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering$79,450
Northwestern UniversityManufacturing Engineering$73,949
Cornell UniversityEngineering Physics$75,889
Smith CollegeEngineering, General$61,020
Lehigh UniversityEnvironmental/Environmental Health Engineering$61,020
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBiomedical/Medical Engineering$61,020
Princeton UniversityChemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research$91,744
Case Western Reserve UniversityPolymer/Plastics Engineering$57,318
Harvard UniversityEngineering Science$70,456
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 ↗