USG Launches New Earnings Comparison Calculator for Prospective and Current Students

The University System of Georgia announced with great fanfare yesterday that its Georgia Degrees Pay webpages now include a new online calculator with features allowing prospective and current students to compare their expected future earnings between both academic majors and USG institutions for a given academic major (see webpage capture below). For these and other comparison situations the comparison groups can be restricted to graduates who remain in Georgia or those graduates venturing out across the U.S. Turner Business took the occasion to compare expected future earnings of graduates from the various State Universities category of institutions for management, finance and marketing majors. In all cases we restricted the groups to graduates who remain in Georgia after graduation. 

The table below provides a short-, intermediate- and long-term view of what graduates of each USG State University have achieved in terms of post-graduation earnings. In the spirit of the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, gold, silver and bronze highlights are used to denote the top three institutions at each time and for each academic major. As indicated below, management graduates from Georgia College & State University do relatively well, earning about $50,000 in their first year and about $90,000 after 10 years. They are followed closely at each point in time by management graduates from the University of North Georgia. In the short and intermediate term, management majors from Georgia Southwestern do well. However, they are overtaken by Clayton State University management graduates in the long term.

The second comparison is that for finance majors. In this case, only two institutions report data. Based on the available information, finance graduates from the University of North Georgia about $50,000 in their first year and about $76,000 after five years. These earning a notably higher than those for Turner College finance majors. However, after 10 years at work the earnings of Turner College finance graduates exceed those of their University of North Georgia counterparts. Lastly, results for the short and intermediate run in the case of earnings of marketing majors mirror those for management majors in both the top three ranking order and absolute earnings. In the case of marketing, however, the earnings of Turner College marketing graduates surpass those of the marketing graduates from the University of North Georgia in the long run.

A medals count scoreboard appears above. In terms of total medals, the University of North Georgia's business school graduates hover above all others with eight medals. These are followed by business school graduates of Georgia College & State University and Turner College graduates with six and four medals, respectively.