Bachelor's · Edmond, Oklahoma
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at University of Central Oklahoma worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 7.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,492
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $50,302
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $82k (likely $78k – $109k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.7 years (likely 5.7–11.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$119k (likely −$196k – −$67k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $10k (likely −$80k – $102k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 36%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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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 Levels and Methods at other schools in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Christian University$48,101
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$46,252
- Oklahoma State University-Main Campus$46,215
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University$46,166
- Southern Nazarene University$45,934
- Oklahoma Baptist University$45,306
- University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma$44,218
- Oral Roberts University$44,177
- Northeastern State University$43,116
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University$42,538