Bachelor's · Stephenville, Texas
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Tarleton State University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $80,411
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $96,324
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $87k (likely $87k – $117k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $60k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 2.1–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $325k (likely $234k – $393k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.02M (likely $851k – $1.22M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Tarleton State University
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Texas
- West Coast University-Texas$111,455
- University of Houston-Clear Lake$103,991
- The University of Texas at Arlington$99,393
- University of Houston-Downtown$99,177
- Baptist Health System School of Health Professions$98,449
- Chamberlain University-Texas$96,132
- Texas A&M University-Central Texas$95,566
- Grayson College$94,159
- Lamar University$93,709
- Austin Community College District$93,631