Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX · Public · Bachelor-granting · 32,394 undergrads · 73% admitted

Do students finish?
69% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$27,443/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$109,772 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.

$62,454 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $41,009 median $62,454 75th pct $91,778

82% 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.

56 Bachelor's programs · $21,619 to $89,229 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Petroleum Engineering.Bachelor's $89,229 $24,850
Chemical Engineering.Bachelor's $75,153 $27,232
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $73,975 $26,000
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $70,609 $25,000
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $69,734 $24,250
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $69,234 $19,500
Construction Engineering.Bachelor's $68,843 $24,446
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $63,040 $25,980
Industrial Engineering.Bachelor's $62,931 $28,500
Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $61,842 —
Information Science/Studies.Bachelor's $59,695 $24,912
Science, Technology and Society.Bachelor's $54,539 $27,067
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $52,649 $21,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $49,470 $19,812
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $47,589 $20,500
Marketing.Bachelor's $47,375 $20,500
Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $45,573 $21,500
Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.Bachelor's $45,136 $27,000
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $44,133 $18,750
Economics.Bachelor's $43,863 $27,000
Mathematics.Bachelor's $43,802 $27,954
Music.Bachelor's $43,170 $27,000
Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.Bachelor's $40,980 $18,750
Agriculture, General.Bachelor's $40,784 $25,000
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $39,319 $25,250
Agricultural Business and Management.Bachelor's $38,635 $15,750
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $38,482 $20,250
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $38,427 $20,494
Agricultural Public Services.Bachelor's $38,426 $20,000
International/Globalization Studies.Bachelor's $37,047 $21,500
Nutrition Sciences.Bachelor's $35,369 $21,500
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $35,046 $21,600
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $34,291 $24,231
Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $34,154 —
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.Bachelor's $33,632 $21,500
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.Bachelor's $33,605 $22,897
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.Bachelor's $32,914 $23,429
History.Bachelor's $32,908 $21,237
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $32,838 $21,250
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $32,450 $21,500
Journalism.Bachelor's $32,005 $22,000
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $31,330 $22,250
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $31,264 $27,000
Social Work.Bachelor's $30,902 $25,750
Architecture.Bachelor's $30,726 $20,000
Sociology.Bachelor's $29,867 $22,231
Animal Sciences.Bachelor's $29,416 $20,000
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,061 $21,500
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $28,921 $19,750
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $28,525 $23,250
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $27,894 $20,000
Anthropology.Bachelor's $27,273 $26,000
Biology, General.Bachelor's $24,862 $21,500
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $23,954 $22,718
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $22,176 $23,250
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $21,619 $21,198

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
$15,250
≈ 24% 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 (81 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