-46%
Paul Quinn College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Paul Quinn College are 46% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($29.3k vs $53.8k).
State hub · Texas · vintage 2025-05
Texas Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Texas — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Texas
Top signals rolled up across Texasinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-45%
Messenger College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Messenger College are 45% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($29.5k vs $53.8k).
-39%
Jarvis Christian University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Jarvis Christian University are 39% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.0k vs $53.8k).
-38%
Wiley University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Wiley University are 38% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.2k vs $53.8k).
-37%
Texas College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Texas College are 37% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.8k vs $53.8k).
-30%
Texas Southern University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Texas Southern University are 30% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($38.9k vs $55.7k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Texas Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
298
Title-IV main campuses11,406
with published outcomes$39,639
across institutions51.8%
median across institutions1,193,272
latest historical vintage$9,236
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Texas has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+50%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
30.7% → 46.0%
+78%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
670,357 → 1,193,272
+272%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,480 → $9,236
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
124 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 124 of 298 Title-IV institutions · Public 101 · Private 68 · For-profit 129
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
BY CITY
All 115 Texas cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Abilene
- Addison
- Alpine
- Alvin
- Amarillo
- Arlington
- Athens
- Austin
- Baytown
- Beaumont
- Bedford
- Beeville
- Belton
- Benbrook
- Big Spring
- Borger
- Brenham
- Brownsville
- Brownwood
- Bryan
- Canyon
- Carrollton
- Carthage
- Cisco
- Clarendon
- Clute
- College Station
- Commerce
- Conroe
- Corpus Christi
- Corsicana
- Dallas
- DALLAS
- Denison
- Denton
- Eagle Pass
- Edinburg
- El Paso
- Fort Worth
- Frisco
- Gainesville
- Galveston
- Garland
- Georgetown
- Grand Prairie
- Greenville
- Haltom city
- Hawkins
- Hillsboro
- Houston
- Huntsville
- Hurst
- Irving
- Jacksonville
- Keene
- Kerrville
- Kilgore
- Killeen
- Kingsville
- Lake Jackson
- Laredo
- Levelland
- Lewisville
- Longview
- Lubbock
- Lufkin
- Marshall
- McAllen
- McKinney
- Mesquite
- Midland
- Mission
- Mount Pleasant
- Nacogdoches
- New Braunfels
- Odessa
- Orange
- Paris
- Pasadena
- Pearland
- Pharr
- Plainview
- Port Arthur
- Portland
- Prairie View
- Ranger
- Richardson
- Round Rock
- San Angelo
- San Antonio
- San Marcos
- Schertz
- Seguin
- Sherman
- Silsbee
- Snyder
- Southlake
- Stafford
- Stephenville
- Temple
- Terrell
- Texarkana
- Texas City
- The Woodlands
- Tyler
- Universal City
- Uvalde
- Vernon
- Victoria
- Waco
- Waxahachie
- Weatherford
- Weslaco
- Wharton
- Wichita Falls
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.