CIP 5138 · Master's Degree · Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. 168 completers in the most recent 4-year window (330 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $120,246.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$120,246
Texas CIP-4 median $124,633
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$114,426
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$50,275
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
168
330 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

5.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $50,275 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $120,246.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

5.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Texas CIP 5138 peer-median earnings $124,633.

SECTION 02 · PROGRAM HISTORY

How this program has shifted

Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.

DEBT · 20142018$50,275
$58,750$37,57920142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019168
33016820142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+34%

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center · debt_median rose

37,579 → 50,275

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome of this program

Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Master's Degree at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

SUPPRESSION & SELECTION

What this page tells you, and what it doesn't

Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.

Methodology →