Bachelor's · Addison, Texas
Is Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services at Abilene Christian University-Undergraduate Online 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 7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,338
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,270
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $71k (likely $71k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7 years (likely 4.0–14.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$95k (likely −$207k – $48k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $130k (likely −$99k – $431k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 0%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services at other schools in Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin$59,166
- University of Houston$54,871
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- Abilene Christian University$50,525
- Texas State University$50,151
- Texas Woman's University$49,210
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