Master's · Charlotte, North Carolina
Is Student Counseling and Personnel Services at University of North Carolina at Charlotte worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $56,550
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,108
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $43,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $46k (likely $46k – $46k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$2k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$234k (likely −$301k – −$176k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$275k (likely −$395k – −$160k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$158,814
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$151,262
- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$128,510
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$125,281
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$122,997
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Doctoral)$113,816
- Business/Managerial Economics (Master's)$112,577
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$112,462
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Graduate certificate)$108,308
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$108,285
- Computer Science (Master's)$107,088
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$101,786
Student Counseling and Personnel Services at other schools in North Carolina
- Salem College$61,499
- North Carolina A & T State University$59,911
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$58,010
- Wake Forest University$57,982
- North Carolina Central University$57,412
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$56,709
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$56,624
- Appalachian State University$55,225
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke$55,200
- Western Carolina University$51,558