Bachelor's · Shreveport, Louisiana
Is Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Louisiana State University-Shreveport 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 5.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $40,218
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $52,768
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $47k (likely $47k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.2 years (likely 3.9–7.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$54k (likely −$129k – $14k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $168k (likely $17k – $321k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 33%
- 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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