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Emerson College majors and salaries

Emerson College · Boston, Massachusetts · Private nonprofit · 3,870 undergraduates

10
of 14 bachelor's programs with pay data
$67,317
median earnings 10 years after enrolling
$23,250
median federal debt at graduation
80%
graduate within six years

Marketing leads the pay table by a wide margin: $76,623 four years after graduation, against $63,337 for Journalism. Film/Video and Photographic Arts is the largest program by degrees awarded (768 over two years); its graduates earned a median $49,951 four years after finishing. Berklee College of Music trail Emerson College on median earnings ten years after enrollment, while Providence College, Yeshiva University, Pepperdine, Bentley and Marist University are ahead.

Highest-paying bachelor's programs

Marketing: $76,623Marketing$76,623Journalism: $63,337Journalism$63,337Communication Disorders Sciences and Services: $61,496Communication Disorders Sciences a…$61,496Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication: $59,301Public Relations, Advertising, and…$59,301Communication and Media Studies: $59,202Communication and Media Studies$59,202Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies: $51,742Rhetoric and Composition/Writing S…$51,742Film/Video and Photographic Arts: $49,951Film/Video and Photographic Arts$49,951Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other: $49,381Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, O…$49,381Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft: $44,760Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft$44,760
Median earnings four years after graduation, graduates working and not enrolled.

Every program with earnings data

ProgramGraduates (2 yrs)Median debtPay after 1 yrPay after 4 yrs
Marketing99$22,750$55,658$76,623
Journalism135$23,250$43,207$63,337
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services19––$61,496
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication108$20,500$47,775$59,301
Communication and Media Studies67$21,500$54,462$59,202
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies210$22,500$39,432$51,742
Film/Video and Photographic Arts768$21,500$38,235$49,951
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other43$20,500$25,966$49,381
Business/Commerce, General109$22,781$45,871–
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft225$24,250$33,442$44,760

Programs are grouped by four-digit CIP code, so one row can cover several related majors. "Graduates" counts bachelor's degrees awarded across the two years that make up each earnings cohort.

Outcomes

Six-year graduation rate
80% (four-year colleges: 54% median)
First-year students who return
87%
Students per faculty member
14
Median earnings 10 years after enrolling
$67,317 (four-year colleges: $58,912 median)
Median federal debt at graduation
$23,250 (four-year colleges: $21,609 median)

Colleges similar to Emerson College

The six private nonprofit four-year colleges closest to Emerson College in acceptance rate and undergraduate enrollment.

CollegeAcceptance rateUndergraduatesAvg net priceEarnings after 10 yrs
Providence College
Providence, RI		51%4,229$49,594$90,260
Yeshiva University
New York, NY		56%2,852$49,210$77,098
Pepperdine
Malibu, CA		63%3,553$48,065$89,410
Bentley
Waltham, MA		45%4,474$38,969$126,427
Marist University
Poughkeepsie, NY		57%5,182$42,789$84,453
Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA		44%7,468$47,587$43,451

Program earnings and debt come from the College Scorecard field-of-study file: median pay of graduates who were working and not enrolled, one and four years after finishing, for two pooled graduating classes. Programs with too few graduates are suppressed by the Department of Education and do not appear. College Scorecard data updated November 2, 2026. How these figures are built · Emerson College on College Scorecard