Master's · Edinburg, Texas
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 2.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $74,465
- 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
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $21k (likely $21k – $21k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.7 years (likely 1.7–5.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$24k (likely −$108k – $73k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $131k (likely −$51k – $344k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Texas
- Texas A&M University-College Station$183,813
- Rice University$166,012
- Southern Methodist University$140,799
- The University of Texas at Austin$128,909
- The University of Texas at San Antonio$128,404
- The University of Texas at Dallas$124,603
- East Texas A&M University$120,549
- University of North Texas$91,548
- University of Dallas$89,232
- University of Houston$78,473