Engineering at Maryville College

Based on comparable engineering programs nationally, graduates can expect first-year earnings around $68,000—right at the national median—while taking on debt of roughly $26,500. That debt load translates to a manageable debt-to-earnings ratio of 0.39, meaning you'd owe about five months of gross salary, which is well within reasonable territory for an engineering degree.

What's encouraging here is that similar programs across Tennessee typically produce lower first-year earnings ($63,746) while carrying higher debt ($29,750). If Maryville's engineering program performs like its peer institutions nationally rather than regionally, students could see both better salary outcomes and less debt than they'd encounter at comparable Tennessee schools. The University of Tennessee-Martin, for instance, reports starting salaries about $4,000 lower than the national benchmark Maryville's estimates are based on.

The caveat: these figures are derived from other programs since Maryville's engineering cohort is too small for the Department of Education to report actual outcomes. That means there's real uncertainty about whether this specific program delivers the median results we're seeing from peer institutions. For a professional degree like engineering where accreditation standards help ensure baseline quality, the estimates provide a reasonable starting point—but you're making this decision with less concrete evidence than you'd have at schools with reported data.