Bachelor's · Jacksonville, Florida
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at University of North Florida worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,153
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $53,217
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $13,565
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $50k (likely $50k – $66k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4 years (likely 3.0–5.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$54k (likely −$115k – −$7k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $88k (likely $573 – $178k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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AP classes
- AP Psychology
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP Statistics
IB Higher Level
- Psychology HL
- Language A HL
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- Florida Gulf Coast University$58,115
- Florida SouthWestern State College$57,918
- Florida Atlantic University$56,073
- Miami Dade College$55,276
- The University of Tampa$53,942
- Rollins College$53,908
- Florida International University$53,854
- Indian River State College$53,747
- University of Florida$53,079
- St Petersburg College$52,047