Bachelor's · Edinburg, Texas
Is Marketing at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $40,384
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $49,258
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $11,000
- 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
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.6 years (likely 2.6–5.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$61k (likely −$123k – −$2k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $110k (likely −$10k – $255k)
- 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
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$103,189
- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$89,423
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- Business/Commerce, General (Master's)$87,822
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- Health Professions Education, Ethics, and Humanities (Master's)$81,382
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Post-baccalaureate certificate)$78,382
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- Texas Christian University$97,148
- The University of Texas at Austin$91,955
- Southern Methodist University$88,627
- Trinity University$84,347
- Saint Edward's University$80,562
- University of St Thomas$78,424
- Baylor University$78,398
- Texas A&M University-College Station$76,035
- The University of Texas at Dallas$73,732
- Texas Tech University$72,953