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Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 32,446 Undergrads 65.7% Grad Rate
Total Cost
$27,472
Sticker Price
Avg Net Price
$20,071
After Aid
Median Earnings
$62,454
10yr Post-Entry
Vs. Peer Institutions
Net Price$20,071
Peer Midpoint: $19,729.5
Earnings (10yr)$62,454
Peer Midpoint: $53,747
Graduation Rate65.7%
Peer Midpoint: 58.5%
Socio-Economic Diversity
Pell Grant Recipients25.9%
Enrollment Status
Full-Time91.1%
Economic Outcomes
Earn More than HS79.2%
Admissions Profile
Acceptance
70.9%
SAT Avg
1,182
SAT Reading
25th: 55060075th: 640
SAT Math
25th: 54059575th: 630
ACT Composite
25th: 222675th: 28
ROI Sensitivity Analysis
This analysis tests three cost scenarios (Scholarship, Average Net Price, Full Sticker Price) to show how college costs impact your long-term return compared to the average student and a high school graduate.
Lifetime Value Added (NPV)
Institution Lifetime NPV
Vs Median Peer
Vs HS Grad
Zero Cost (Scholarship)$0
+$536k
+$139k
+$52k
Median Cost$20k/yr
+$464k
+$67k
-$21k
Full Cost$27k/yr
+$437k
+$41k
-$47k
ROI Efficiency Metrics
Break-Even Age
Return on Inv. %
Zero Cost (Scholarship)$0
38
∞
Median Cost$20k/yr
Never
-29%
Full Cost$27k/yr
Never
-48%
Analysis Assumptions:
- Starting Salary: Estimated from the 10-year median earnings (assuming 2% annual growth from graduation).
- Comparisons: "Vs Median Peer" compares to the median student nationwide in a similar level program. "Vs HS Grad" compares to a median high school graduate.
- Break-Even: The age at which the college investment net income exceeds the median high school graduate's lifetime earnings.
- NPV: Net Present Value of all future earnings minus costs and taxes, discounted at 7.8%.
Social Impact ROINew
Measures the societal return on a donor's investment. Calculated as the incremental pre-tax lifetime earnings vs. HS grad, divided by the tax-adjusted donation cost.
Donor Return10%
Gov. Pell Grant ROINew
Measures the government's return on Pell Grants via increased tax revenue. Calculated as the portion of incremental lifetime taxes (discounted at 5.4%) attributed to the Pell Grant investment.
Taxpayer Return-50%
Important Note: Your ROI with any major will depend on the cost you pay to attend the program, and your starting salary. Both vary significantly across institutions. We encourage you to explore the ROI of a specific program variant by selecting the Program title of the credential level you are interested in. You will then have a more detailed return analysis for programs at specific institutions. We also encourage you to use the ROI calculator with your specific estimates of cost and salary.
Program ROI Analysis
Bachelor's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
BachCIP: 5203
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$87,025
Lifetime Value Added
+$174k
Agricultural Business and Management
BachCIP: 0101
Median Debt
$15,750
Earnings (5yr)
$79,142
Lifetime Value Added
+$115k
Agricultural Public Services
BachCIP: 0108
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$54,653
Lifetime Value Added
-$73k
Agriculture, General
BachCIP: 0100
Median Debt
$25,000
Earnings (5yr)
$52,441
Lifetime Value Added
-$91k
Animal Sciences
BachCIP: 0109
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$54,222
Lifetime Value Added
-$77k
Architecture
BachCIP: 0402
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$62,018
Lifetime Value Added
-$14k
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
BachCIP: 2602
Median Debt
$22,718
Earnings (5yr)
$68,301
Lifetime Value Added
+$34k
Biology, General
BachCIP: 2601
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$55,979
Lifetime Value Added
-$63k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
BachCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$19,812
Earnings (5yr)
$80,948
Lifetime Value Added
+$129k
Business/Commerce, General
BachCIP: 5201
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$86,344
Lifetime Value Added
+$169k
Chemical Engineering
BachCIP: 1407
Median Debt
$27,232
Earnings (5yr)
$96,061
Lifetime Value Added
+$242k
Chemistry
BachCIP: 4005
Median Debt
$27,487
Earnings (5yr)
$68,194
Lifetime Value Added
+$33k
Civil Engineering
BachCIP: 1408
Median Debt
$25,980
Earnings (5yr)
$91,736
Lifetime Value Added
+$210k
Communication and Media Studies
BachCIP: 0901
Median Debt
$21,600
Earnings (5yr)
$62,488
Lifetime Value Added
-$11k
Computer and Information Sciences, General
BachCIP: 1101
Median Debt
$19,500
Earnings (5yr)
$106,327
Lifetime Value Added
+$319k
Computer Engineering
BachCIP: 1409
Median Debt
$24,250
Earnings (5yr)
$104,343
Lifetime Value Added
+$304k
Construction Engineering
BachCIP: 1433
Median Debt
$24,446
Earnings (5yr)
$102,183
Lifetime Value Added
+$288k
Design and Applied Arts
BachCIP: 5004
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$36,134
Lifetime Value Added
-$209k
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services
BachCIP: 5131
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$58,424
Lifetime Value Added
-$43k
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
BachCIP: 5005
Median Debt
$23,250
Earnings (2yr)
$38,289
Lifetime Value Added
-$189k
Economics
BachCIP: 4506
Median Debt
$27,000
Earnings (5yr)
$69,569
Lifetime Value Added
+$43k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
BachCIP: 1410
Median Debt
$26,000
Earnings (5yr)
$98,444
Lifetime Value Added
+$260k
English Language and Literature, General
BachCIP: 2301
Median Debt
$20,000
Earnings (5yr)
$55,277
Lifetime Value Added
-$68k
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies
BachCIP: 1904
Median Debt
$27,000
Earnings (5yr)
$70,532
Lifetime Value Added
+$51k
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General
BachCIP: 1901
Median Debt
$23,429
Earnings (5yr)
$49,657
Lifetime Value Added
-$114k
Finance and Financial Management Services
BachCIP: 5208
Median Debt
$21,000
Earnings (5yr)
$92,415
Lifetime Value Added
+$215k
Fine and Studio Arts
BachCIP: 5007
Median Debt
$27,000
Earnings (5yr)
$41,695
Lifetime Value Added
-$180k
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services
BachCIP: 1905
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$57,755
Lifetime Value Added
-$48k
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
BachCIP: 4006
Median Debt
$25,250
Earnings (5yr)
$57,013
Lifetime Value Added
-$54k
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
BachCIP: 3105
Median Debt
$22,250
Earnings (5yr)
$58,772
Lifetime Value Added
-$40k
History
BachCIP: 5401
Median Debt
$21,237
Earnings (5yr)
$56,372
Lifetime Value Added
-$59k
Hospitality Administration/Management
BachCIP: 5209
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$67,259
Lifetime Value Added
+$26k
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services
BachCIP: 1907
Median Debt
$21,250
Earnings (5yr)
$51,726
Lifetime Value Added
-$97k
Industrial Engineering
BachCIP: 1435
Median Debt
$28,500
Earnings (5yr)
$104,083
Lifetime Value Added
+$302k
Information Science/Studies
BachCIP: 1104
Median Debt
$24,912
Earnings (5yr)
$93,736
Lifetime Value Added
+$224k
Interior Architecture
BachCIP: 0405
Median Debt
$21,950
Earnings (5yr)
$57,328
Lifetime Value Added
-$52k
International Business
BachCIP: 5211
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$68,829
Lifetime Value Added
+$38k
Journalism
BachCIP: 0904
Median Debt
$22,000
Earnings (2yr)
$32,284
Lifetime Value Added
-$244k
Landscape Architecture
BachCIP: 0406
Median Debt
$27,000
Earnings (5yr)
$67,991
Lifetime Value Added
+$32k
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
BachCIP: 2401
Median Debt
$24,231
Earnings (5yr)
$54,047
Lifetime Value Added
-$78k
Marketing
BachCIP: 5214
Median Debt
$20,500
Earnings (5yr)
$76,074
Lifetime Value Added
+$92k
Mathematics
BachCIP: 2701
Median Debt
$27,954
Earnings (5yr)
$60,209
Lifetime Value Added
-$29k
Mechanical Engineering
BachCIP: 1419
Median Debt
$25,000
Earnings (5yr)
$93,452
Lifetime Value Added
+$222k
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
BachCIP: 2605
Median Debt
$21,198
Earnings (5yr)
$76,515
Lifetime Value Added
+$96k
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
BachCIP: 3099
Median Debt
$18,750
Earnings (5yr)
$56,016
Lifetime Value Added
-$62k
Music
BachCIP: 5009
Median Debt
$27,000
Earnings (5yr)
$51,813
Lifetime Value Added
-$96k
Natural Resources Conservation and Research
BachCIP: 0301
Median Debt
$22,897
Earnings (5yr)
$46,915
Lifetime Value Added
-$137k
Petroleum Engineering
BachCIP: 1425
Median Debt
$24,850
Earnings (5yr)
$116,140
Lifetime Value Added
+$392k
Political Science and Government
BachCIP: 4510
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$57,886
Lifetime Value Added
-$47k
Psychology, General
BachCIP: 4201
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$49,483
Lifetime Value Added
-$115k
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
BachCIP: 0909
Median Debt
$20,250
Earnings (5yr)
$58,729
Lifetime Value Added
-$40k
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication
BachCIP: 0907
Median Debt
$23,250
Earnings (5yr)
$50,880
Lifetime Value Added
-$104k
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
BachCIP: 2313
Median Debt
$20,494
Earnings (5yr)
$58,424
Lifetime Value Added
-$43k
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
BachCIP: 1609
Median Debt
$19,750
Earnings (5yr)
$55,962
Lifetime Value Added
-$63k
Science, Technology and Society
BachCIP: 3015
Median Debt
$27,067
Earnings (5yr)
$89,025
Lifetime Value Added
+$189k
Social Work
BachCIP: 4407
Median Debt
$25,750
Earnings (5yr)
$54,331
Lifetime Value Added
-$76k
Sociology
BachCIP: 4511
Median Debt
$22,231
Earnings (5yr)
$52,686
Lifetime Value Added
-$89k
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations
BachCIP: 5219
Median Debt
$21,500
Earnings (5yr)
$53,186
Lifetime Value Added
-$85k
Master's Degrees
Accounting and Related Services
MastCIP: 5203
Median Debt
$21,200
Earnings (5yr)
$95,346
Lifetime Value Added
+$363k
Architecture
MastCIP: 0402
Median Debt
$26,578
Earnings (5yr)
$72,822
Lifetime Value Added
+$169k
Business Administration, Management and Operations
MastCIP: 5202
Median Debt
$32,703
Earnings (5yr)
$110,997
Lifetime Value Added
+$497k
Communication and Media Studies
MastCIP: 0901
Median Debt
$24,641
Earnings (5yr)
$66,438
Lifetime Value Added
+$114k
Educational Administration and Supervision
MastCIP: 1304
Median Debt
$28,675
Earnings (5yr)
$64,486
Lifetime Value Added
+$96k
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
MastCIP: 1306
Median Debt
$30,479
Earnings (2yr)
$41,937
Lifetime Value Added
-$89k
Educational/Instructional Media Design
MastCIP: 1305
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$52,107
Lifetime Value Added
+$13k
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
MastCIP: 1410
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$110,047
Lifetime Value Added
+$489k
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
MastCIP: 1414
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$59,169
Lifetime Value Added
+$81k
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies
MastCIP: 1904
Median Debt
$25,643
Earnings (5yr)
$78,644
Lifetime Value Added
+$219k
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services
MastCIP: 1905
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$65,536
Lifetime Value Added
+$106k
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
MastCIP: 3105
Median Debt
$17,550
Earnings (5yr)
$60,051
Lifetime Value Added
+$56k
Hospitality Administration/Management
MastCIP: 5209
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$48,432
Lifetime Value Added
-$24k
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
MastCIP: 3099
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$70,117
Lifetime Value Added
+$146k
Museology/Museum Studies
MastCIP: 3014
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$33,459
Lifetime Value Added
-$177k
Music
MastCIP: 5009
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$37,475
Lifetime Value Added
-$158k
Public Administration
MastCIP: 4404
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$48,041
Lifetime Value Added
-$28k
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
MastCIP: 2313
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$52,107
Lifetime Value Added
+$13k
Security Science and Technology
MastCIP: 4304
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$47,260
Lifetime Value Added
-$35k
Special Education and Teaching
MastCIP: 1310
Median Debt
$30,040
Earnings (5yr)
$64,416
Lifetime Value Added
+$96k
Student Counseling and Personnel Services
MastCIP: 1311
Median Debt
$52,242
Earnings (2yr)
$41,193
Lifetime Value Added
-$97k
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
MastCIP: 1313
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$62,955
Lifetime Value Added
+$83k
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management
MastCIP: 0306
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$65,119
Lifetime Value Added
+$102k
Doctoral Degrees
Curriculum and Instruction
DocCIP: 1303
Median Debt
$47,372
Earnings (2yr)
$53,775
Lifetime Value Added
-$93k
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
DocCIP: 1306
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$121,452
Lifetime Value Added
+$380k
English Language and Literature, General
DocCIP: 2301
Median Debt
-
Earnings (2yr)
$55,338
Lifetime Value Added
-$80k
Music
DocCIP: 5009
Median Debt
-
Earnings (5yr)
$56,866
Lifetime Value Added
-$95k
Professional Degrees
Law
ProfCIP: 2201
Median Debt
$86,163
Earnings (5yr)
$104,362
Lifetime Value Added
+$256k
Note: Lifetime Value Added is the Net Present Value (NPV) of estimated career earnings relative to a median high school graduate, accounting for this institution's average cost and taxes. Computed over a career to retirement age.
For graduate programs (Master's, Doctoral, etc.), the calculation assumes a starting age of 22 (after undergraduate completion) and does not include the sunk costs of prior degrees. It represents the value added of the graduate degree decision moving forward. These Lifetime Value Added results should not be compared with those Undergraduate Certificates, Associates or Bachelors starting at age 18.