College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 50,012 undergrads · 99% admitted

Do students finish?

65% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$42,025/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$168,100 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$44,813 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $24,639 median $44,813 75th pct $68,020

64% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

41 Bachelor's programs · $20,214 to $63,731 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $63,731 $26,000

Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $60,410 $26,899

Industrial Engineering.Bachelor's $60,079 —

Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $59,556 $27,216

Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $52,657 $26,765

Air Transportation.Bachelor's $49,846 $22,420

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $45,519 $27,000

Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $44,576 —

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $43,497 $25,000

International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $43,248 $21,750

Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $40,903 $25,000

Mathematics.Bachelor's $40,001 $27,000

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $38,738 $20,832

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $38,737 $23,500

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $38,561 $27,000

Religion/Religious Studies.Bachelor's $35,680 $31,332

American Sign Language.Bachelor's $35,141 —

Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $33,713 $27,000

Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $33,014 $21,500

Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $32,506 $24,998

Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $32,441 $20,707

Legal Support Services.Bachelor's $32,253 $30,616

Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $31,851 —

Social Work.Bachelor's $31,302 $27,000

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,061 $27,977

History.Bachelor's $28,363 $21,500

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $27,880 $23,375

Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries.Bachelor's $27,163 $22,827

Religious Music and Worship.Bachelor's $25,962 $23,750

Public Health.Bachelor's $25,731 $26,000

Bible/Biblical Studies.Bachelor's $25,622 —

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $25,346 $25,664

Apparel and Textiles.Bachelor's $25,234 $22,500

Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.Bachelor's $24,858 $24,259

Music.Bachelor's $24,848 $27,000

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $24,772 $24,957

Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $24,623 $23,250

Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.Bachelor's $23,956 —

Biology, General.Bachelor's $22,652 $21,500

Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language.Bachelor's $22,495 $27,000

Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $20,214 $22,500

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt

$15,943

≈ 36% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (92 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website