Brooklyn College Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies
- Public college
- Brooklyn, NY
- About 56 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Brooklyn College ethnic, cultural, and gender studies graduates earn about what ethnic, cultural, and gender studies graduates earn nationally, $32,083 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $14,094 in federal loans, less than at 92% of ethnic, cultural, and gender studies programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying ethnic, cultural, and gender studies degrees in New York.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The New York and national columns are the medians across all ethnic, cultural, and gender studies bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Brooklyn College graduates earn about the national figure and about the same as the New York median.
Debt and first-year pay at every New York ethnic, cultural, and gender studies program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the New York medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 57% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $149 a month, or 5.6% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
94% of graduates (89 of 95) were working in New York one year after graduating. Prices in the New York area are about 13% above the national average, so a $32,083 salary here buys what about $28,502 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to ethnic, cultural, and gender studies, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Interpreters and Translators
$84,090Median pay in New York. 3,240 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 2% from 2025 to 2035, with about 6,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Brooklyn College
Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies ranks 11th of 27 bachelor's programs at Brooklyn College by first-year earnings. The top three are Computer and Information Science ($51,862), Information Science ($49,688), and Subject-Area Teacher Education ($46,233).
Other ethnic, cultural, and gender studies bachelor's programs near Brooklyn
Common questions
The median graduate earns $32,083 one year after graduating and $50,335 five years after. The median across ethnic, cultural, and gender studies bachelor's programs in New York is $29,823.
The median federal loan balance is $14,094, which ranks 2nd lowest of 8 ethnic, cultural, and gender studies bachelor's programs in New York. That works out to about $149 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 44% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 69%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 20% or less. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several New York programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
Most do. 94% (89 of 95) were working in New York one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of New York comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the ethnic, cultural, and gender studies program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024