Bachelor's · Odessa, Texas
Is Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at The University of Texas Permian Basin 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 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $50,751
- 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
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $22k (likely $22k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.2–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$25k (likely −$119k – $90k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $144k (likely −$37k – $387k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 41%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Petroleum Engineering (Bachelor's)$100,059
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$94,269
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$91,215
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$87,329
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$86,141
- Public Administration (Master's)$69,597
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$66,490
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$62,226
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Master's)$61,032
- Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor's)$60,805
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$59,290
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$56,608
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at other schools in Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin$73,089
- Southern Methodist University$63,405
- University of the Incarnate Word$62,084
- University of St Thomas$61,219
- University of Houston$58,450
- Texas Tech University$58,375
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$58,060
- University of North Texas$55,562
- The University of Texas at Arlington$54,975
- Texas State University$54,099