Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

The University of Tampa

Tampa, FL · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 10,572 undergrads · 40% admitted

Do students finish?
64% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$51,614/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$206,456 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.

$59,436 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $38,879 median $59,436 75th pct $87,838

80% 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.

22 Bachelor's programs · $15,105 to $60,038 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $60,038 $27,000
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $51,611 $24,250
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $48,568 $25,250
Marketing.Bachelor's $40,708 $23,327
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $40,633 $21,750
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $40,177 $24,250
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.Bachelor's $39,562 $25,500
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $39,146 $23,375
International Business.Bachelor's $38,635 $24,601
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $34,278 $23,250
Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $31,690
Criminology.Bachelor's $31,473 $23,250
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.Bachelor's $30,178 $26,941
Public Health.Bachelor's $30,140 $22,500
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,159 $23,250
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $26,461 $24,589
Biology, General.Bachelor's $26,017 $25,000
Sociology.Bachelor's $22,931 $21,030
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $22,808 $23,948
Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $20,423 $20,500
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.Bachelor's $19,540 $26,449
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $15,105 $25,000

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
$18,750
32% 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 (31 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