4-year earnings Median earnings for a program cohort four years after completion.
$79,754
Program median
Program + credential
Cognitive Science.: Bachelor's 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.
$67,677
Program median
Median debt Median program debt for a defined completion cohort.
$18,092
At evaluated institution
Cohort count Count context for the program outcome metrics.
756
Students in outcome cohort
| School | Type | Institution net price | Institution grad rate | Program data status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnard College New York, NY | Private nonprofit | $28,800 | 93% | Available |
| Beloit College Beloit, WI | Private nonprofit | $21,526 | 71.1% | Available |
| Brown University Providence, RI | Private nonprofit | $25,184 | 95.7% | Available |
| California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA | Public | $7,000 | 57% | Available |
| California State University-Stanislaus Turlock, CA | Public | $6,067 | 53.5% | Available |
| Carleton College Northfield, MN | Private nonprofit | $25,407 | 89.6% | Available |
| Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | Private nonprofit | $31,944 | 94.1% | Available |
| Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | Private nonprofit | $41,190 | 87.2% | Available |
| Chapman University Orange, CA | Private nonprofit | $46,555 | 81.9% | Available |
| Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA | Private nonprofit | $28,849 | 91.4% | Available |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | Private nonprofit | $21,590 | 96.1% | Available |
| Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | Private nonprofit | $29,519 | 95.5% | Available |
| DePauw University Greencastle, IN | Private nonprofit | $22,264 | 74.7% | Available |
| Duke University Durham, NC | Private nonprofit | $29,612 | 96.8% | Available |
| Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA | Private nonprofit | $36,425 | 83.8% | Available |
| George Fox University Newberg, OR | Private nonprofit | $31,679 | 72% | Available |
| Hampshire College Amherst, MA | Private nonprofit | $24,034 | 54.3% | Available |
| Haverford College Haverford, PA | Private nonprofit | $25,314 | 89.6% | Available |
| Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN | Public | $16,264 | 80.2% | Available |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | Private nonprofit | $18,809 | 93.8% | Available |
| Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA | Private nonprofit | $36,931 | 87.9% | Available |
| Loyola University New Orleans New Orleans, LA | Private nonprofit | $23,696 | 59% | Available |
| Marquette University Milwaukee, WI | Private nonprofit | $31,487 | 83.2% | Available |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | Private nonprofit | $20,111 | 96.4% | Available |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato Mankato, MN | Public | $19,139 | 54% | Available |
| New York University New York, NY | Private nonprofit | $37,050 | 87.6% | Available |
| Occidental College Los Angeles, CA | Private nonprofit | $38,263 | 80.9% | Available |
| Pitzer College Claremont, CA | Private nonprofit | $34,191 | 83.4% | Available |
| Pomona College Claremont, CA | Private nonprofit | $19,285 | 93.2% | Available |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | Private nonprofit | $36,228 | 83.6% | Available |
| Rice University Houston, TX | Private nonprofit | $13,370 | 94.6% | Available |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | Public | $24,406 | 83.6% | Available |
| Scripps College Claremont, CA | Private nonprofit | $36,294 | 82.5% | Available |
| Simmons University Boston, MA | Private nonprofit | $25,265 | 72.3% | Available |
| Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | Private nonprofit | $40,892 | 84.3% | Available |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA | Private nonprofit | $13,807 | 91.9% | Available |
| State University of New York at Oswego Oswego, NY | Public | $16,236 | 60.4% | Available |
| Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA | Private nonprofit | $23,149 | 92.3% | Available |
| The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX | Public | $18,267 | 75.7% | Available |
| Tufts University Medford, MA | Private nonprofit | $39,998 | 93.5% | Available |
| United States Military Academy West Point, NY | Public | Not available | 87.1% | Available |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY | Public | $20,995 | 75.2% | Available |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Public | $13,481 | 92.8% | Available |
| University of California-Davis Davis, CA | Public | $14,741 | 85.7% | Available |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA | Public | $14,251 | 86.9% | Available |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | Public | $12,548 | 92.6% | Available |
| University of California-Merced Merced, CA | Public | $11,983 | 68.7% | Available |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA | Public | $12,470 | 86.1% | 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 Delaware Newark, DE | Public | $17,799 | 80.6% | Available |
| University of Evansville Evansville, IN | Private nonprofit | $18,499 | 64.5% | Available |
| University of Georgia Athens, GA | Public | $13,936 | 89.7% | Available |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | Public | $14,355 | 85.1% | Available |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | Public | $13,138 | 93.2% | Available |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth Duluth, MN | Public | $18,743 | 64.7% | Available |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | Private nonprofit | $28,699 | 96.5% | Available |
| University of Richmond University of Richmond, VA | Private nonprofit | $31,309 | 85.2% | Available |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | Private nonprofit | $32,740 | 91.8% | Available |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | Public | $21,565 | 95.6% | Available |
| University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI | Public | $17,490 | 54.9% | Available |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | Private nonprofit | $15,846 | 93.5% | Available |
| Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY | Private nonprofit | $39,343 | 91.1% | Available |
| Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO | Private nonprofit | $21,786 | 94.3% | Available |
| Whitman College Walla Walla, WA | Private nonprofit | $33,313 | 80.5% | Available |
| Yale University New Haven, CT | Private nonprofit | $23,777 | 95.7% | Available |