Bachelor's · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 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 6.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $52,051
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,861
- 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
- $73k (likely $73k – $78k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.1 years (likely 3.7–12.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$84k (likely −$202k – $44k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $154k (likely −$93k – $435k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 85%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Psychology
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP Statistics
IB Higher Level
- Psychology HL
- Language A HL
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Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at other schools in Minnesota
- St Olaf College$51,909
- Bethel University$51,866
- Concordia College at Moorhead$51,840
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$50,337
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- St Catherine University$48,873
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