Bachelor's · Henderson, Tennessee
Is Accounting and Related Services at Freed-Hardeman 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $65,484
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $93k (likely $93k – $106k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $30k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.2 years (likely 2.8–7.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $33k (likely −$102k – $196k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $363k (likely $85k – $695k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 73%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$81,348
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- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$56,083
- Bible/Biblical Studies (Bachelor's)$50,335
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$49,109
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$45,008
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Bachelor's)$43,057
- Social Work (Bachelor's)$40,833
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication (Bachelor's)$37,392
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- Tennessee State University$69,414
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