Bachelor's · Grand Rapids, Michigan
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at Cornerstone 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,418
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $50,850
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $76k (likely $76k – $76k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $14k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.8 years (likely 3.8–19.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$103k (likely −$185k – −$340)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $12k (likely −$143k – $215k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 62%
- 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 (Associate's)$61,067
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- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Master's)$51,886
- Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor's)$48,923
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$47,933
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- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$54,558
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- Oakland University$48,396
- Western Michigan University$47,898
- Calvin University$47,157
- University of Michigan-Dearborn$46,791