Master's · Greenville, North Carolina
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at East Carolina 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $61,020
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $65,230
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $5k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.2 years (likely 3.6–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$118k (likely −$196k – −$41k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$56k (likely −$214k – $111k)
- Today's dollars
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- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$66,145
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