Bachelor's · Edinburg, Texas
Is Biology, General at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $29,938
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $51,508
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $10,584
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $21k (likely $21k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 3.4–4.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$47k (likely −$101k – −$15k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $145k (likely $57k – $239k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- 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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- Southern Methodist University$78,466
- The University of Texas at Austin$66,264
- University of Houston-Clear Lake$64,555
- Texas Christian University$63,572
- Southwestern University$62,928
- Texas A&M University-College Station$61,734
- Dallas Baptist University$60,722
- Saint Edward's University$60,546
- University of Mary Hardin-Baylor$59,307
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