Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of North Alabama

Florence, AL · Public · Bachelor-granting · 5,811 undergrads · 87% admitted

Do students finish?
55% complete

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

What does it cost?
$23,786/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$95,144 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.

$45,415 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $28,413 median $45,415 75th pct $64,932

69% 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.

23 Bachelor's programs · $17,406 to $52,373 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Management Information Systems and Services.Bachelor's $52,373 $25,000
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $51,845 $21,761
Chemistry.Bachelor's $49,373 $23,250
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $41,641 $21,375
Marketing.Bachelor's $39,312 $21,000
Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $37,794 $29,750
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $37,711 $21,250
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $36,116 $23,250
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $35,166 $24,999
Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $33,699 $18,500
Biology, General.Bachelor's $31,781 $20,205
Social Work.Bachelor's $30,894 $27,000
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $28,688 $20,375
Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.Bachelor's $26,659 $24,437
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $26,107 $22,004
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.Bachelor's $25,547 $21,811
History.Bachelor's $25,511 $18,194
Music.Bachelor's $25,275 $22,900
Research and Experimental Psychology.Bachelor's $24,142 $19,125
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.Bachelor's $23,672
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology, Other.Bachelor's $23,117
Sociology.Bachelor's $20,499 $25,000
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $17,406

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
$15,781
35% 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 (27 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