Master's · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Is Educational Administration and Supervision at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 3.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $81,954
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $81,780
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $39,838
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $42k (likely $42k – $42k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.4 years (likely 2.0–8.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $4k (likely −$117k – $136k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $184k (likely −$56k – $446k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Master's)$216,728
- Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical Studies (Master's)$204,372
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$203,447
- Dentistry (First professional)$198,570
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (Master's)$170,529
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$158,240
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Doctoral)$144,922
- Law (First professional)$142,928
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (First professional)$142,610
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (Doctoral)$139,657
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$137,047
- Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (Doctoral)$136,705
Educational Administration and Supervision at other schools in North Carolina
- High Point University$90,962
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$76,369
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke$73,686
- East Carolina University$73,367
- North Carolina Central University$72,023
- Fayetteville State University$71,181
- Gardner-Webb University$70,841
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$70,268
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$70,227
- North Carolina A & T State University$69,708