Bachelor's · Texarkana, Texas
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Texas A&M University-Texarkana 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 2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $85,435
- 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
- $72k (likely $72k – $100k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $52k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2 years (likely 1.5–2.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $267k (likely $118k – $446k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $828k (likely $525k – $1.21M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 29%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other (Bachelor's)$47,135
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- History (Bachelor's)$41,460
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$41,358
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin$146,003
- Rice University$136,656
- Prairie View A & M University$115,939
- University of Houston$107,399
- Texas Tech University$107,110
- The University of Texas at Dallas$104,448
- Texas A&M University-College Station$103,789
- Lamar University$103,037
- Baylor University$100,110
- The University of Texas at Arlington$99,993