Which Franklin and Marshall College major has the lowest debt?

4 of the 11 Franklin and Marshall College bachelor's programs that report debt tie for the lowest, a median of $19,000 in federal loans.

How much does Franklin and Marshall College cost?

Tuition and fees are $70,794 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $36,425 a year.

How many Franklin and Marshall College programs report graduate pay?

11 bachelor's programs at Franklin and Marshall College report first-year pay, and all of them also report federal debt.

Franklin and Marshall College Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Private nonprofit college
Lancaster, PA
1,799 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

11 Franklin and Marshall College bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Business Administration pays the most in the first year ($64,664), and Sociology the least ($31,444). The median program pays $43,134.

Tuition and fees$70,794Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$36,425Per year

Graduation rate84%Within 6 years

Admission rate28%Of applicants

All 11 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Pennsylvania" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Pennsylvania. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Pennsylvania
1	Business AdministrationAbout 62 graduates a year	$64,664	$88,150	$19,500	4th of 65
2	EconomicsAbout 41 graduates a year	$52,801	$75,967	$23,048	13th of 22
3	Political ScienceAbout 41 graduates a year	$45,928	$71,360	$19,000	7th of 29
4	Romance LanguagesAbout 8 graduates a year	$45,300	Not reported	$19,250	2nd of 12
5	Other Interdisciplinary StudiesAbout 92 graduates a year	$43,593	$78,260	$19,875	2nd of 4
6	Public HealthAbout 36 graduates a year	$43,134	Not reported	$20,875	1st of 10
7	Behavioral SciencesAbout 51 graduates a year	$38,391	Not reported	$19,000	1st of 1
8	BiologyAbout 24 graduates a year	$37,950	Not reported	$19,000	14th of 50
9	Environmental Science and ConservationAbout 19 graduates a year	$36,536	Not reported	$22,888	8th of 16
10	Writing and RhetoricAbout 11 graduates a year	$33,476	Not reported	$23,083	3rd of 7
11	SociologyAbout 21 graduates a year	$31,444	Not reported	$19,000	15th of 20

Program names link to the program's own page, and Pennsylvania ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Pennsylvania programs in the field do too.

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Business Administration$64,664
Economics$52,801
Political Science$45,928
Romance Languages$45,300
Other Interdisciplinary Studies$43,593

Lowest median debt

Political Science$19,000
Behavioral Sciences$19,000
Biology$19,000
Sociology$19,000
Romance Languages$19,250

Largest programs

Other Interdisciplinary StudiesAbout 92 graduates a year
Business AdministrationAbout 62 graduates a year
Behavioral SciencesAbout 51 graduates a year
EconomicsAbout 41 graduates a year
Political ScienceAbout 41 graduates a year

Common questions

Business Administration graduates earn a median of $64,664 in their first year, the most of 11 Franklin and Marshall College bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
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 Pennsylvania rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels