Bachelor's · Columbus, Mississippi
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at Mississippi University for Women 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 6.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $42,271
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $43,175
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,109
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $49k (likely $49k – $66k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $10k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MS
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.8 years (likely 4.3–15.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$111k (likely −$177k – −$47k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$22k (likely −$135k – $97k)
- 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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AP classes
- AP Psychology
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IB Higher Level
- Psychology HL
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