Bachelor's · Edinburg, Texas
Is Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 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 1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,058
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $68,127
- 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
- $21k (likely $21k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1 years (likely 0.7–1.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $132k (likely $30k – $256k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $477k (likely $267k – $732k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$89,423
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- Business/Commerce, General (Master's)$87,822
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Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at other schools in Texas
- Tarleton State University$81,042
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center$77,114
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center$75,237
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston$74,831
- University of North Texas$73,156
- The University of Texas at Austin$71,970
- Texas State University$68,940
- The University of Texas at El Paso$66,491