Bachelor's · Livingston, Alabama
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at University of West Alabama 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,965
- 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
- $29,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $49k (likely $49k – $67k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $12k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.2 years (likely 3.2–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$101k (likely −$195k – $11k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $28k (likely −$167k – $252k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 35%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at other schools in Alabama
- Samford University$52,171
- Alabama State University$51,014
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- Troy University$49,195
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- University of South Alabama$48,956
- Auburn University at Montgomery$48,715
- University of North Alabama$47,973
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