Master's · Charleston, Illinois
Is Curriculum and Instruction at Eastern Illinois University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,287
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,580
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $19k (likely $19k – $19k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$5k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$218k (likely −$286k – −$148k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$264k (likely −$401k – −$112k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Eastern Illinois University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$95,880
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$81,372
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$81,362
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Master's)$76,047
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$72,758
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$72,220
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$70,704
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$69,772
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$66,840
- Political Science and Government (Master's)$63,359
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$62,994
- Public Health (Master's)$62,821
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- University of St Francis$73,452
- McKendree University$71,192
- National Louis University$70,926
- Northern Illinois University$70,651
- Olivet Nazarene University$69,690
- Lewis University$68,917
- Concordia University-Chicago$68,826
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$65,524
- Aurora University$64,114
- Illinois State University$61,775