Bachelor's · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas at Oklahoma City University 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 13.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $42,886
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $48,571
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $155k (likely $155k – $155k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 13.9 years (likely 8.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$207k (likely −$291k – −$98k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$30k (likely −$202k – $204k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 56%
- 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 Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University-Main Campus$54,953
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$51,533
- Southern Nazarene University$50,918
- Northwestern Oklahoma State University$50,705
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University$49,466
- University of Central Oklahoma$48,851
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University$47,607
- Oklahoma Baptist University$46,956
- Cameron University$45,932
- Northeastern State University$45,474