Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Texas Woman's University

Denton, TX · Public · Bachelor-granting · 8,767 undergrads · 96% admitted

Do students finish?
49% complete

A large share of students do not finish; the cost is the same whether or not you graduate.

What does it cost?
$22,234/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$88,936 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.

$56,544 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $35,935 median $56,544 75th pct $77,086

75% 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.

29 Bachelor's programs · $19,792 to $64,343 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $64,343 $18,310
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $61,489
Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.Bachelor's $58,388 $14,049
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $44,994 $20,500
Mathematics.Bachelor's $44,972 $15,684
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $43,490 $24,186
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $42,120 $22,505
Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.Bachelor's $40,619 $20,950
Human Resources Management and Services.Bachelor's $40,299 $24,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $39,200 $21,430
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $36,520 $23,462
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.Bachelor's $36,148 $14,104
History.Bachelor's $35,952
Marketing.Bachelor's $35,733 $15,399
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $35,659 $22,609
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.Bachelor's $35,158 $21,200
Sociology.Bachelor's $34,736 $20,263
Social Work.Bachelor's $33,467 $21,070
Biology, General.Bachelor's $31,865 $20,322
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $30,660 $19,125
Dance.Bachelor's $29,494 $21,280
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $28,703 $19,500
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.Bachelor's $28,006 $20,761
Nutrition Sciences.Bachelor's $27,414 $21,500
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $26,074 $23,634
Legal Support Services.Bachelor's $25,653
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $25,359 $23,239
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.Bachelor's $23,994 $16,924
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $19,792

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
$14,000
25% 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 (47 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