CIP 5138 · Master's Degree · The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. 187 completers in the most recent 4-year window (191 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $128,857.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$128,857
Texas CIP-4 median $120,246
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$116,931
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$41,000
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
187
191 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 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

4.2%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $41,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $128,857.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

4.5%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Texas CIP 5138 peer-median earnings $120,246.

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$41,000
$41,000$28,59720142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019187
19112920142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
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 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston(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 →