Bachelor's · Odessa, Texas
Is Political Science and Government 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 4.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $42,183
- 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
- $7k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.7 years (likely 1.8–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$114k (likely −$205k – −$839)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$41k (likely −$211k – $191k)
- 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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AP classes
- AP U.S. Government and Politics
- AP U.S. History
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP Comparative Government and Politics
IB Higher Level
- History HL
- Global Politics HL
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Political Science and Government at other schools in Texas
- Rice University$87,804
- The University of Texas at Austin$75,988
- Texas Christian University$75,419
- Texas A&M University-College Station$69,375
- Trinity University$68,934
- The University of Texas at Dallas$65,869
- Saint Edward's University$63,504
- Dallas Baptist University$62,372
- Southwestern University$61,935
- Baylor University$61,578