Bachelor's · Chicago, Illinois
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at Northeastern Illinois University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $63,114
- 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
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $46k (likely $40k – $57k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $26k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.6–3.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $26k (likely −$82k – $157k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $309k (likely $100k – $575k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 25%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$69,529
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- Mathematics (Bachelor's)$66,269
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$65,769
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at other schools in Illinois
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$67,961
- University of Illinois Chicago$63,233
- DePaul University$57,957
- Elmhurst University$56,411
- Trinity Christian College$55,482
- Concordia University-Chicago$55,212
- Eastern Illinois University$54,548
- Illinois State University$54,452
- Saint Xavier University$53,898
- Northern Illinois University$53,672