Bachelor's · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Is Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $67,555
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $77,790
- 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
- $48k (likely $48k – $48k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $41k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.4–2.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $207k (likely $86k – $338k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $699k (likely $447k – $1.01M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 91%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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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
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at other schools in North Carolina
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$65,594
- Belmont Abbey College$60,199
- William Peace University$50,090
- East Carolina University$49,981
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$46,146
- Fayetteville State University$45,610
- North Carolina A & T State University$45,367
- Winston-Salem State University$42,020
- University of North Carolina Asheville$41,796
- Appalachian State University$39,150