Bachelor's · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Is English Language and Literature, General at Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia 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 11 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,718
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,001
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,638
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $144k (likely $144k – $144k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11 years (likely 7.9–18.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$177k (likely −$262k – −$84k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $48k (likely −$135k – $273k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 81%
- 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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AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
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- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
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- Lehigh University$71,474
- University of Scranton$69,349
- Villanova University$67,157
- University of Pennsylvania$61,989
- Gettysburg College$60,876
- Dickinson College$57,603
- Ursinus College$56,454
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- Lafayette College$53,050
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