Bachelor's · Wilmington, North Carolina
Is English Language and Literature, General at University of North Carolina Wilmington 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 9.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $35,915
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $49,418
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,094
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $83k (likely $83k – $100k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.7 years (likely 7.0–14.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$143k (likely −$205k – −$76k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $32k (likely −$97k – $185k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 72%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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English Language and Literature, General at other schools in North Carolina
- Wake Forest University$77,847
- Elon University$68,927
- Duke University$52,808
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$51,208
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$49,088
- Guilford College$49,064
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$48,338
- Appalachian State University$45,954
- Western Carolina University$45,079
- East Carolina University$43,585