Doctoral · Nashville, Tennessee
Is Educational Administration and Supervision at Lipscomb University 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $88,350
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $61,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $65k (likely $65k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 2.3–6.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$100k (likely −$257k – $90k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $247k (likely −$72k – $647k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Lipscomb University
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$135,760
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$127,250
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$108,894
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$106,199
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,990
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$90,589
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$83,930
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$80,751
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$77,996
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$74,051
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$73,891
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Master's)$66,213
Educational Administration and Supervision at other schools in Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University$122,742
- Tennessee State University$99,827
- Union University$88,094
- Trevecca Nazarene University$87,850
- East Tennessee State University$85,955
- University of Memphis$85,070
- Carson-Newman University$76,497