Bachelor's · Seward, Nebraska
Is Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at Concordia University-Nebraska 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 16.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $46,552
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $48,386
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $104k (likely $104k – $123k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $9k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NE
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 16.6 years (likely 10.2–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$213k (likely −$278k – −$160k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$136k (likely −$238k – −$29k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 60%
- 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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Other majors at Concordia University-Nebraska
- Business/Commerce, General (Master's)$75,289
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$74,896
- Public Health (Master's)$73,297
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- Curriculum and Instruction (Master's)$62,319
- Business/Commerce, General (Bachelor's)$60,031
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$59,994
- Theological and Ministerial Studies (Bachelor's)$58,162
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$58,159
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$56,495
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- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$56,011
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods at other schools in Nebraska
- Doane University$53,163
- University of Nebraska at Omaha$48,486
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln$48,046
- Nebraska Wesleyan University$45,991
- Chadron State College$45,577
- Peru State College$44,850
- Wayne State College$43,369
- University of Nebraska at Kearney$41,922
- Hastings College$39,999