Bachelor's · Lafayette, Louisiana
Is Accounting and Related Services at University of Louisiana at Lafayette 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 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $52,971
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $64,706
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,904
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $63k (likely $63k – $89k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $29k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 3.1–5.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $42k (likely −$42k – $119k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $394k (likely $245k – $575k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 52%
- 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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AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
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- Business Management HL
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Accounting and Related Services at other schools in Louisiana
- Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College$82,617
- Loyola University New Orleans$69,590
- University of Louisiana at Monroe$69,533
- McNeese State University$67,331
- Nicholls State University$66,499
- Louisiana Tech University$65,284
- Louisiana State University-Shreveport$61,117
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana$60,861
- University of New Orleans$59,301
- Southeastern Louisiana University$59,067