Bachelor's · Houston, Texas
Is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at Texas Southern University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 10.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $35,992
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $47,919
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,405
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $76k (likely $70k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $11k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 10.3 years (likely 6.9–16.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$167k (likely −$246k – −$84k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$16k (likely −$147k – $149k)
- 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
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Texas Southern University
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$141,000
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$74,170
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$70,201
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- Law (First professional)$66,184
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Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at other schools in Texas
- Texas A&M University-College Station$69,815
- The University of Texas at Dallas$65,617
- University of the Incarnate Word$60,839
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$59,794
- Texas Woman's University$58,585
- Lamar University$57,524
- University of Houston$54,471
- The University of Texas at San Antonio$53,757
- Stephen F Austin State University$52,716
- Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi$51,909