Engineering

Civil Engineering

SUNY Polytechnic Institute · Utica, NY

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$20,228Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Reported median debt$25,563Reported for this university and degree
Annual credentials awarded17Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

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$61,268
Same subject · national$60,523
Engineering · national$63,302

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $59,068–$63,270.

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
University of Connecticut-StamfordCivil Engineering · shared campus reporting$67,061
South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyCivil Engineering$60,523
University of Missouri-Kansas CityCivil Engineering$55,547
University of Alabama in HuntsvilleCivil Engineering$62,012
Missouri University of Science and TechnologyCivil Engineering$62,746
Oregon State University-Cascades CampusCivil Engineering$63,430
University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleCivil Engineering$60,028
Oregon Institute of TechnologyCivil Engineering$67,660
Michigan Technological UniversityCivil Engineering$63,217
University of Missouri-St LouisCivil Engineering$59,350
University of Massachusetts-DartmouthCivil Engineering$49,937
The University of Texas at TylerCivil Engineering$58,221
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 ↗