Bachelor's · Nashville, Tennessee
Is Social Work at Trevecca Nazarene 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 6.8 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
- $55,330
- 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
- $84k (likely $84k – $93k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.8 years (likely 4.1–13.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$86k (likely −$192k – $37k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $120k (likely −$89k – $388k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 51%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Trevecca Nazarene University
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$116,655
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$87,850
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$80,266
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$67,103
- Educational/Instructional Media Design (Master's)$64,048
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Bachelor's)$62,259
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$62,197
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$56,595
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Master's)$56,423
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$55,836
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$55,646
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$55,646
Social Work at other schools in Tennessee
- Lipscomb University$53,938
- Southern Adventist University$51,516
- Belmont University$50,748
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville$48,510
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga$48,410
- University of Memphis$46,494
- Union University$46,286
- Middle Tennessee State University$45,451
- Tennessee State University$44,989
- Austin Peay State University$44,152