Bachelor's · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at Wisconsin Lutheran College 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,164
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $57,517
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,825
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $105k (likely $105k – $126k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.7 years (likely 5.3–17.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$140k (likely −$250k – −$7k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $87k (likely −$149k – $360k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 66%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Psychology
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IB Higher Level
- Psychology HL
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