Bachelor's · Dallas, Texas
Is Business/Commerce, General at Dallas Christian College 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 5.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $48,830
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,237
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $111k (likely $111k – $151k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $34k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.7 years (likely 4.1–8.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $7k (likely −$137k – $173k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $429k (likely $116k – $780k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 24%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Business/Commerce, General at other schools in Texas
- Baylor University$124,434
- Texas Tech University$86,278
- Concordia University Texas$78,414
- University of Houston-Clear Lake$71,973
- University of North Texas$71,695
- Southwestern University$71,342
- DeVry University-Texas$68,126
- The University of Texas at Dallas$66,880
- Tarleton State University$66,572
- Strayer University-Texas$64,016