Bachelor's · Moorhead, Minnesota
Is English Language and Literature, General at Minnesota State University Moorhead 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 13.1 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
- $48,854
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $75k (likely $75k – $97k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $7k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 13.1 years (likely 6.4–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$200k (likely −$289k – −$99k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$104k (likely −$275k – $109k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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English Language and Literature, General at other schools in Minnesota
- College of Saint Benedict$51,753
- St Olaf College$49,382
- Winona State University$47,876
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities$47,873
- St Catherine University$47,549
- Gustavus Adolphus College$46,987
- University of Minnesota-Duluth$46,740
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$45,688
- Hamline University$41,531
- Metropolitan State University$39,572