Bachelor's · Martin, Tennessee
Is Computer Science at The University of Tennessee-Martin 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $85,288
- 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
- $43k (likely $43k – $57k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $47k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.4 years (likely 1.0–2.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $258k (likely $92k – $471k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $796k (likely $456k – $1.25M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 51%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Vanderbilt University$160,021
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- Middle Tennessee State University$96,485
- Tennessee Technological University$90,521
- University of Memphis$90,207
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga$82,644
- Rhodes College$78,973
- Tennessee State University$67,292
- Austin Peay State University$66,088