Master's · Odessa, Texas
Is Special Education and Teaching at The University of Texas Permian Basin 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 16.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $63,685
- 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
- $28,986
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $31k (likely $31k – $31k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $3k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 16.4 years (likely 5.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$157k (likely −$225k – −$79k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$127k (likely −$269k – $51k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at The University of Texas Permian Basin
- Petroleum Engineering (Bachelor's)$100,059
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$94,269
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$91,215
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$87,329
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$86,141
- Public Administration (Master's)$69,597
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$66,490
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$62,226
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Master's)$61,032
- Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor's)$60,805
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$56,608
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$54,598
Special Education and Teaching at other schools in Texas
- Sam Houston State University$70,757
- Texas Tech University$66,336
- Sul Ross State University$65,438
- The University of Texas at Tyler$64,946
- Texas A&M University-Victoria$64,808
- Lamar University$64,598
- The University of Texas at El Paso$64,197
- Texas A&M University-College Station$63,853
- West Texas A & M University$63,537
- East Texas A&M University$63,451