Bachelor's · Boulder, Colorado
Is English Language and Literature, General at University of Colorado Boulder worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 10.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $36,756
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,094
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,417
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $101k (likely $101k – $131k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $14k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 10.7 years (likely 7.8–17.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$195k (likely −$279k – −$120k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$5k (likely −$163k – $165k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 74%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
IB Higher Level
- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
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English Language and Literature, General at other schools in Colorado
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$54,500
- Metropolitan State University of Denver$51,955
- University of Denver$49,287
- University of Northern Colorado$46,455
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$46,154
- Colorado State University Pueblo$44,045
- Colorado Mesa University$43,733
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$42,627
- Fort Lewis College$41,653
- Western Colorado University$39,414