Smith College Education (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Education, General
- Private nonprofit college
- Northampton, MA
- About 28 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Smith College education graduates earn less than graduates of most education programs nationally, $33,737 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $19,000 in federal loans, less than at 92% of education programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying education degrees in Massachusetts.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Massachusetts and national columns are the medians across all education bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Smith College graduates earn more than the national figure and about the same as the Massachusetts median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Massachusetts education program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Massachusetts 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 59% 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 $201 a month, or 7.1% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
Prices in the Amherst Town area are about the same as the national average.
About Smith College
Education ranks 10th of 17 bachelor's programs at Smith College by first-year earnings. The top three are Economics ($71,559), Statistics ($69,250), and Computer Science ($66,981).
Other education bachelor's programs near Northampton
Common questions
The median graduate earns $33,737 one year after graduating and $53,517 five years after. The median across education bachelor's programs in Massachusetts is $33,401.
The median federal loan balance is $19,000, which ranks the lowest of 6 education bachelor's programs in Massachusetts. That works out to about $201 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 56% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 68%.
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 Massachusetts 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 education 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