Bachelor's · Redlands, California
Is English Language and Literature, General at University of Redlands 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 11.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,576
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $131k (likely $131k – $152k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $14k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11.7 years (likely 6.7–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$191k (likely −$312k – −$64k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$21k (likely −$245k – $255k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 65%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Seminar
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- Language A: Literature HL or Language and Literature HL
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- Stanford University$82,036
- University of San Diego$68,752
- Northeastern University Oakland$67,877
- Loyola Marymount University$66,806
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$63,413
- University of California-Berkeley$60,187
- Sonoma State University$59,418
- University of Southern California$59,345
- University of California-Santa Barbara$59,334
- National University$59,192