Bachelor's · Charleston, South Carolina
Is English Language and Literature, General at College of Charleston 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $40,312
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $55,537
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $77k (likely $77k – $82k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in SC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.6 years (likely 5.0–9.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$70k (likely −$140k – $7k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $179k (likely $24k – $365k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 65%
- 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
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
IB Higher Level
- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
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English Language and Literature, General at other schools in South Carolina
- Wofford College$58,036
- Clemson University$50,582
- University of South Carolina-Columbia$45,185
- Winthrop University$44,068
- Francis Marion University$40,098
- University of South Carolina Aiken$38,980
- Coastal Carolina University$37,707
- University of South Carolina-Upstate$36,785
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