Security Science and Technology at Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon

The $12,517 starting salary after this degree is alarmingly low—less than a third of what Security Science graduates earn nationally. While earnings do climb 58% to $19,711 by year four, that's still barely above the poverty line and dramatically underperforms the $39,252 national median. The fact that this program ranks in just the 5th percentile nationally tells you most graduates would be better off at nearly any other school offering this degree.

The Puerto Rico context makes this slightly more defensible: this program actually sits at the 60th percentile among the 11 PR schools offering Security Science, and at least the debt load is relatively modest at $5,750. However, one of Inter American's own campuses in Ponce produces graduates earning nearly double ($23,578), which raises serious questions about why this Bayamon campus struggles so dramatically with graduate outcomes. With 81% of students receiving Pell grants, most families here are already financially vulnerable and cannot afford to invest four years for poverty-level wages.

The numbers simply don't work. Even with low debt, earning under $20,000 four years post-graduation makes it nearly impossible to achieve financial stability. Unless you have specific circumstances keeping you tied to this campus, exploring other Inter American locations or different degree programs entirely would be a wiser path forward.