Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV · Public · Bachelor-granting · 24,622 undergrads · 96% admitted

Do students finish?
51% complete

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

What does it cost?
$19,638/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$78,552 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.

$55,037 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $31,740 median $55,037 75th pct $80,999

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.

43 Bachelor's programs · $20,576 to $71,477 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $71,477 $19,250
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.Bachelor's $67,725 $24,896
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.Bachelor's $66,229 $22,500
Civil Engineering.Bachelor's $64,674 $20,225
Computer Engineering.Bachelor's $64,154
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $59,374 $19,625
Computer Science.Bachelor's $54,877 $19,954
Data Processing.Bachelor's $52,631 $20,020
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $49,951 $16,007
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $45,691 $14,875
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $44,021 $21,226
International Business.Bachelor's $43,060 $20,235
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $43,025 $9,500
Economics.Bachelor's $42,891 $18,069
Mathematics.Bachelor's $41,964 $23,547
Public Administration.Bachelor's $41,658
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $40,852
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $39,765 $15,000
Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $39,615 $18,750
Social Work.Bachelor's $38,843 $19,000
Marketing.Bachelor's $38,721 $15,580
Human Services, General.Bachelor's $37,830 $22,391
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $36,656 $19,250
Health and Medical Administrative Services.Bachelor's $35,837 $19,125
Sociology.Bachelor's $35,427 $19,109
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $35,346 $18,618
Music.Bachelor's $35,326 $30,500
Design and Applied Arts.Bachelor's $34,183 $18,929
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $33,653 $17,572
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $33,589 $19,500
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $31,846 $20,000
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $30,024 $27,473
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.Bachelor's $29,759 $19,663
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,390 $18,500
Anthropology.Bachelor's $29,212 $17,086
Philosophy.Bachelor's $27,214 $19,239
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $26,952 $19,350
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $26,437 $25,100
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $23,693 $22,362
Dance.Bachelor's $22,767 $21,625
Film/Video and Photographic Arts.Bachelor's $21,455 $17,500
Biology, General.Bachelor's $21,244 $18,668
Nutrition Sciences.Bachelor's $20,576 $16,442

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
$12,500
23% 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 (61 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