Bachelor's · College Station, Texas
Is Accounting and Related Services at Texas A&M University-College Station 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
- $79,604
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $111,346
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,812
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $91k (likely $91k – $119k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $75k 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 2.2–2.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $441k (likely $362k – $518k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.32M (likely $1.12M – $1.53M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 85%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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- The University of Texas at Austin$105,143
- Dallas Baptist University$103,694
- Southern Methodist University$103,675
- Baylor University$102,011
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- Lamar University$87,924
- University of Houston$84,668