Bachelor's · Chicago, Illinois
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at Roosevelt University 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,840
- 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
- $20,800
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $91k (likely $91k – $91k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.2 years (likely 4.5–9.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$75k (likely −$149k – $4k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $134k (likely −$23k – $302k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 34%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$82,149
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$75,716
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- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Associate's)$73,245
- Business/Corporate Communications (Bachelor's)$70,005
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$69,720
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