More Than a Degree: Your Return on Investment
Explore where a Lally education can take you. Starting salaries, earnings after graduation, and alumni career paths offer different perspectives on the value of studying business and technology at RPI. Review results by program, along with the sources and reporting periods behind the numbers.
Graduates leave Lally with a STEM-powered business education that combines strategy, analytics, and innovation; skills employers demand in finance, consulting, technology, and beyond.
Starting Salaries
The following average reported starting salaries describe the Class of 2024. These early career results are separate from the four-year earnings data below:
- Undergraduate Management: $78,733
- Information Technology and Web Science: $106,000
- MBA and M.S. combined: $90,525
Career Paths and Employers
Lally graduates apply their business, analytical, and technical skills across finance, consulting, technology, and other industries. Below are a few examples of their career paths and employers:
Careers
- Business Analyst
Financial Analyst
- Investment Banking Analyst
- Product Manager
- Risk Analyst
- Software Developer
Employers
- Amazon
- Deloitte
- EY
- Goldman Sachs
- IBM
- Microsoft
- Regeneron
Explore Career Data and Starting Salaries
See where your RPI education could take you. Explore hiring statistics at RPI to discover possibilities for your future! View the 2025 Starting Salaries Report to see how graduates are beginning their careers. Explore the roles and organizations where Lally alumni put their education into practice, from business analysis and finance to technology and operations.
Earnings Four Years After Graduation
The earnings data below cover two separately reported RPI bachelor’s program categories: Business and Management and Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS). Each is compared with programs in the same federal field-of-study category.
Business and Management
RPI’s Business and Management bachelor’s program reports median earnings of $99,713 four years after completion. Among reported bachelor’s programs in the same federal Business Administration, Management and Operations category, RPI ranks first of 80 in New York State and 29th of 1,123 nationally, placing it in the top 3 percent nationwide.
Information Technology and Web Science
RPI’s Information Technology and Web Science bachelor’s program reports median earnings of $115,100 four years after completion. Among reported bachelor’s programs in the same federal category, RPI ranks sixth of 32 in New York State and 46th of 407 nationally. This comparison group includes computer science programs at other institutions.
The best measure of ROI? Our alumni.
"Lally’s courses gave me the skills to manage businesses end-to-end and analyze data—tools that directly translated into career opportunities and long-term success."- Alumni, Bachelors in Management 2023
Recent Alumni Titles: Business Analyst, AI Strategy Consultant, Risk Analyst, Product Manager, Geotechnical Project Manager, Financial Analyst, Investment Banking Analyst, Procurement Engineer,
Recent Alumni Employers: Deloitte, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Amazon, Vanguard, Philips, Abbot Labs
How Lally Supports Career Preparation
Lally connects business education with RPI’s strengths in technology, analytics, and innovation. Applied learning, faculty expertise, career advising, and alumni and employer connections help students explore career paths and prepare for professional opportunities.
Plan Your Investment
Planning ahead can help eligible RPI undergraduates make the most of a Lally graduate education. Graduate Pathways offers advising, professional development, and information about how eligible students can share up to 6 credits toward both their undergraduate and Lally graduate degrees. Explore program requirements and financial support options as you plan your next step.
About the Earnings Data
- Footnote 1: U.S. Department of Education program-level data compiled in the HEA Group workbook dated January 5, 2026. Figures pool 2017–18 and 2018–19 completers, with earnings measured in 2022 and 2023 and adjusted to 2024 dollars. Coverage includes Title IV completers who were working and not enrolled four years after exiting their program. Rankings compare reported bachelor’s programs within the same four-digit federal CIP category. Programs without reported earnings are excluded. These historical results are not starting salaries or guarantees of future earnings.
- Footnote 2: The Business and Management earnings cohort contains 67 completers; the ITWS-associated row contains 23. The supplied report states that the ITWS cohort predates the program’s move into Lally.
