Bachelor's · Tyler, Texas
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $81,297
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $102,358
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $16,550
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $57k (likely $57k – $71k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.6 years (likely 1.2–2.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $419k (likely $278k – $580k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.19M (likely $878k – $1.57M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 47%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Calculus AB or BC
- AP Physics 1
- AP Physics C: Mechanics
- AP Chemistry
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- Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL
- Physics HL
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Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin$146,003
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- Prairie View A & M University$115,939
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- Lamar University$103,037
- Baylor University$100,110
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