4-year earnings Median earnings for a program cohort four years after completion.
$55,114
Program median
Program + credential
Astronomy and Astrophysics.: Doctoral Degree
Credential-level program pages keep field-of-study metrics separate from institution-wide outcomes.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard Data status: March 23, 2026 Missing and suppressed values are not zero.
Available program metrics
5-year earnings Median earnings for a program cohort five years after completion.
$44,487
Program median
Median debt Median program debt for a defined completion cohort.
$23,514
At evaluated institution
Cohort count Count context for the program outcome metrics.
114
Students in outcome cohort
| School | Type | Institution net price | Institution grad rate | Program data status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ | Public | $14,967 | 68% | Available |
| Boston University Boston, MA | Private nonprofit | $24,402 | 88.7% | Available |
| Brigham Young University Provo, UT | Private nonprofit | $15,564 | 81% | Available |
| Brown University Providence, RI | Private nonprofit | $25,184 | 95.7% | Available |
| California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | Private nonprofit | $16,075 | 94.4% | Available |
| Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | Private nonprofit | $41,190 | 87.2% | Available |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | Private nonprofit | $21,590 | 96.1% | Available |
| Cornell University Ithaca, NY | Private nonprofit | $28,690 | 95.4% | Available |
| Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL | Private nonprofit | $35,639 | 63.5% | Available |
| Georgia State University Atlanta, GA | Public | $15,931 | 53.1% | Available |
| Hampton University Hampton, VA | Private nonprofit | $25,319 | 57.2% | Available |
| Harvard University Cambridge, MA | Private nonprofit | $19,066 | 97.6% | Available |
| Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN | Public | $16,264 | 80.2% | Available |
| Iowa State University Ames, IA | Public | $18,589 | 75.3% | Available |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | Private nonprofit | $18,809 | 93.8% | Available |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | Private nonprofit | $20,111 | 96.4% | Available |
| Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | Public | $19,680 | 80.7% | Available |
| New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NM | Public | $8,889 | 55.2% | Available |
| Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ | Public | $14,158 | 61.3% | Available |
| Northwestern University Evanston, IL | Private nonprofit | $29,167 | 95.1% | Available |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH | Public | $17,339 | 87.7% | Available |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA | Public | $32,875 | 86.1% | Available |
| Princeton University Princeton, NJ | Private nonprofit | $6,128 | 97.6% | Available |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY | Private nonprofit | $34,906 | 69.9% | Available |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX | Public | $21,315 | 83.9% | Available |
| Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX | Private nonprofit | $36,660 | 85.5% | Available |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX | Public | $19,857 | 88.9% | Available |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK | Public | $10,892 | 38% | Available |
| University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | Public | $16,674 | 67.5% | Available |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR | Public | $18,209 | 70.5% | Available |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Public | $13,481 | 92.8% | Available |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | Public | $12,548 | 92.6% | Available |
| University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA | Public | $17,890 | 75.1% | Available |
| University of Chicago Chicago, IL | Private nonprofit | $14,860 | 95.9% | Available |
| University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO | Public | $25,346 | 74.2% | Available |
| University of Florida Gainesville, FL | Public | $6,541 | 91.1% | Available |
| University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI | Public | $15,664 | 64.3% | Available |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | Public | $14,355 | 85.1% | Available |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD | Public | $15,678 | 88.6% | Available |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA | Public | $22,383 | 83.3% | Available |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | Public | $13,138 | 93.2% | Available |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | Public | $16,778 | 85.3% | Available |
| University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV | Public | $10,359 | 50.5% | Available |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | Public | $21,565 | 95.6% | Available |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA | Public | $14,091 | 85.2% | Available |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI | Public | $17,354 | 89.6% | Available |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | Private nonprofit | $15,846 | 93.5% | Available |
| Yale University New Haven, CT | Private nonprofit | $23,777 | 95.7% | Available |