UT Austin earnings by major: pay and debt
For 2020–2024 UT graduates working in Texas, first-year median pay was $112,200 for Computer Science BSCS and $43,200 for English BA, in 2025 dollars.
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In this investigation
For 2020–2024 UT graduates working in Texas, seekUT’s first-year medians were $112,200 for Computer Science BSCS and $43,200 for English BA, in 2025 dollars. I’d use those degree-specific figures to compare careers, then plan around the range of pay and the loans you’ll actually need.
Those figures describe graduates working in Texas. A national federal table groups several UT degrees together and follows older classes. Both help, as long as you keep the degree, graduating class, and earnings year attached to the number.
What graduates earn in Texas
The seekUT Texas workbook separates degrees that national tables combine. Computer Science BSA graduates have first-year median earnings of $102,300; BSCS graduates have $112,200. Its BA row has a blank first-year figure. A blank stays unknown.
I’d start here if you expect to work in Texas. The national comparison later in the article includes graduates working elsewhere in the country.
| UT program and degree | Texas, year 1 | Texas, year 5 | Texas, year 10 | Debt among borrowers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science - BSCS | $112,200 | $149,100 | $193,900 | $22,100 |
| Electrical And Computer Engineering - BSECE | $101,400 | Not reported | Not reported | $14,400 |
| Finance - BBA | $86,800 | $134,600 | $187,900 | $24,800 |
| Economics - BA | $69,000 | $105,400 | $138,800 | $28,400 |
| Nursing - BSN | $83,400 | $92,700 | $97,100 | $26,000 |
| English - BA | $43,200 | $61,000 | $75,800 | $24,600 |
| Biology - BSBIO | $40,900 | $71,300 | $97,700 | $23,300 |
| Music Performance - BM | $35,800 | $57,200 | $71,400 | $32,200 |
Earnings and debt above are in 2025 dollars under seekUT’s Texas definitions. The latest undergraduate group is 2020–2024. The workbook labels the other columns five and ten years after graduation without dating those graduating groups; keep each graduating group apart. Debt covers borrowers who started at UT as first-time college students and loans taken while attending UT System institutions. It excludes Parent PLUS and borrowing at other institutions.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering BSECE label has a first-year figure, while Electrical Engineering BSEE has a longer series. Combining their names would silently fill a missing ten-year result. The complete download keeps both.
The middle of a major still covers a wide range of pay
For Computer Science BSCS graduates working in Texas, the middle half earned between $91,800 and $144,500 in their first year. That is a $52,700 span within one degree label.
That variation matters when you plan a loan payment or sign a lease. I’d compare the lower quartile as well as the median. A median salary leaves half the measured workers below it.
The claim that variation within a major exceeds differences between majors needs a more careful test. I compared the middle-half spread inside each program with the middle-half spread of program medians. Every program gets one vote; large majors don’t get extra weight. Seven Texas program-and-degree names have two reported first-year results under different historical codes. I excluded those names from this comparison, keeping each remaining program’s one vote.
| Comparison | Programs or fields with first-year quartiles | Typical middle-half span within a program | Middle-half span of program medians | Programs whose internal span is larger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| seekUT Texas, 2020–2024 graduate group, 2025 dollars | 122 program-and-degree names with one reported first-year result | $27,600 | $20,100 | 103 of 122 |
| Census national, 2019–2021 graduates, 2023 dollars | 65 four-digit federal fields | $28,409 | $30,422 | 22 of 65 |
The Texas program comparison supports the claim. The broader national-field comparison reverses it. Neither result says major choice is irrelevant: the highest and lowest national first-year field medians are $100,867 apart. Grouping programs differently changes the comparison, and none of these differences isolates what changing your major would do to your own pay.
The Census PSEO download supplies the national quartiles. These ranges describe graduates’ different earnings; they are not margins of error around a salary forecast.
National earnings follow different graduating classes
Computer and information sciences has national median first-year earnings of $130,966. That four-digit federal field groups UT’s computer-science degree variants. A national BSCS-only result is unavailable in that table.
| National federal field | Year 1: 2019–21 graduates | Year 5: 2016–18 graduates | Year 10: 2010–12 graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and information sciences | $130,966 | $162,623 | $191,060 |
| Electrical and communications engineering | $102,580 | $145,808 | $168,424 |
| Finance | $83,248 | $132,875 | $170,940 |
| Economics | $63,161 | $103,072 | $142,321 |
| Nursing | $72,808 | $88,221 | $107,530 |
| English | $38,202 | $59,153 | $78,158 |
| Biology | $35,414 | $67,509 | $111,779 |
| Music | $48,878 | $60,004 | $70,441 |
The years in the column headings are graduation years. The newest one-year, five-year, and ten-year results follow different people. For a same-class comparison, the data download also follows the 2010–2012 group at all three points, where 54 fields have a reported figure at every point.
National earnings come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes program, release R2026Q2. PSEO excludes graduates below its annual earnings floor or with two or more quarters that show no earnings in the administrative data. It also misses self-employment and some other work. The figures describe graduates meeting those filters. They leave other graduates’ earnings unknown.
There is a dollar-year inconsistency in seekUT’s public sources. Its general help page says 2025 dollars, but its national workbook matches the Census 2023-dollar medians to rounding: all 186 paired figures differ by at most $49. The national table here keeps the Census figures and their documented 2023 dollar basis.
Debt belongs beside the share who borrowed
Only 23.8% of the first-time college entrants in seekUT’s Computer Science BSCS debt group borrowed. Their median debt was $22,100. English BA had a higher borrower share, 49.9%, and a borrower median of $24,600.
| UT program and degree | Graduates who borrowed | Median debt of borrowers | seekUT year-one payment / gross pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science - BSCS | 23.8% | $22,100 | 2.5% |
| English - BA | 49.9% | $24,600 | 7% |
| Nursing - BSN | 46% | $26,000 | 3.8% |
| Music Performance - BM | 44.1% | $32,200 | 12.6% |
The repayment percentages are seekUT’s published estimates using a ten-year fixed repayment schedule and borrowers’ gross monthly earnings. They use the borrower earnings comparison behind that measure, so dividing the two standalone medians in the earlier table will not necessarily reproduce them. They describe a standard repayment estimate before living costs and taxes; your loan terms and repayment plan determine your payment.
The Texas workbook reports debt for 129 of its 174 entries keyed by program code and degree. Borrower medians run from $14,400 to $33,800. Blank rows leave the debt amount unknown.
The federal College Scorecard field-of-study file answers a different borrowing question. Its latest debt group graduated in academic years 2022–23 and 2023–24. Its “any institution” measure includes federal undergraduate loans from prior institutions; it excludes private and state loans, Perkins loans, and accrued interest. Parent PLUS has its own measure. Of 86 UT bachelor fields in the October 15, 2026 file, 64 have a reported federal borrower median and 22 are privacy-suppressed.
For nursing, Scorecard’s federal borrower median is $14,003; seekUT’s Texas BSN borrower median is $26,000. Those are different students, periods, loan definitions, and dollar bases. The gap cannot tell you how much extra a particular nursing student borrowed. Use the figures to understand the questions to ask about your aid offer, then use your own amounts in the federal loan simulator.
Starting-salary surveys leave out some outcomes
The McCombs 2024–2025 BBA salary survey reports a mean base salary of $89,377 and a median of $85,000. Its major table also shows how many job acceptances had a salary attached.
| McCombs major | Reported job acceptances | Reported salary | Salary reports / acceptances | Mean base salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 407 | 339 | 83.3% | $92,315 |
| Marketing | 68 | 48 | 70.6% | $66,542 |
| Supply chain management | 19 | 12 | 63.2% | $76,917 |
Those fractions count only known acceptances. They give no salary-reporting rate for all graduates or for everyone who answered the survey. Canfield honors students can appear in both honors and another business major, so the honors and major rows cannot be added into a graduate total. The table gives useful starting-offer information, but the unreported salaries prevent measuring the direction or size of salary-reporting bias from these rows alone.
The Cockrell salary page, updated May 22, 2025, lists average base pay for positions offered upon graduation. Its overall bachelor figure is $88,141. The page does not state the graduating class or the salary-reporting share beside those major figures. An offer-based mean and a calendar-year earnings median measure different outcomes, even before geography and later study enter the comparison.
I’d use these surveys for recruiting and offer comparisons. For a longer view, use the administrative earnings figures with their graduating classes and work filters.
Texas employers account for most measured employment
Census assigns 15,415 of its 19,742 first-year employment-flow total to Texas employers for UT bachelor graduates of 2019–2021. That is 78.1% of the weighted employment total, with 21.9% assigned elsewhere. When a graduate works in multiple states or industries, Census splits the count by each job’s share of their earnings. These figures measure employer locations, rather than how many individual graduates moved.
| Employer location or industry | Earnings-weighted employment count | Share of 19,742 weighted total |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15,415 | 78.1% |
| Pacific division | 1,541 | 7.8% |
| Middle Atlantic division | 940 | 4.8% |
| Professional, scientific, and technical services | 5,090 | 25.8% |
| Educational services | 2,290 | 11.6% |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,086 | 10.6% |
Location and industry describe the weighted employment in two ways. The PSEO flows file locates employers and classifies industries. It does not identify where graduates live or their job duties. Working for a health-care employer does not establish that someone has a clinical occupation.
The matching work filters also matter. A graduate without qualifying employment in the data may be studying, self-employed, abroad, out of work, or below the earnings threshold. The unobserved group cannot be read as an unemployment rate. Released counts and earnings use confidentiality protection, so tiny differences deserve little weight.
What each source can answer
These figures have been public for years. UT launched seekUT in 2014, and its national Census collaboration began in 2018. The useful addition here is a current degree lookup, a check of the downloadable numbers, and the spread of pay beside the medians.
| Source | Whose earnings? | Detail and time | Debt and money basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| seekUT Texas | UT graduates with qualifying Texas earnings in the administrative data; self-employment excluded | Six-digit program plus degree; one, five, and ten years; latest undergraduate group 2020–2024 | UT System debt for first-time college borrowers; 2025 dollars under the Texas help definitions |
| Census PSEO R2026Q2 | Graduates meeting national work and earnings filters, regardless of federal aid | Four-digit fields; latest one-/five-/ten-year groups 2019–21 / 2016–18 / 2010–12 | Earnings in 2023 dollars; federal PSEO has no debt measure |
| College Scorecard, October 2026 | Federal aid recipients who graduated, worked, and were not enrolled during the earnings year | Four-digit fields; latest one-year group 2020–21 / 2021–22, five-year group 2016–17 / 2017–18 | Earnings in 2024 dollars; latest debt is nominal federal disbursements for 2022–23 / 2023–24 graduates |
| School salary surveys | Graduates with reported offers or salaries under each survey’s rules | Starting offers; major detail varies | Base pay under the report’s definitions; no comparable loan measure |
The Scorecard October 2026 documentation and cohort dictionary define the current field-level data. The field earnings series includes completers. Older articles describing Scorecard as one university-wide figure that mixes graduates and nongraduates describe a different measure and an earlier version of the product.
Every program and code in the Texas download
The table below preserves all 174 entries keyed by program code and degree in the public seekUT Texas download, including historical codes and labels. The code matters: Nutrition BSA has two first-year results, $42,800 and $34,200, under different codes. Keeping the code visible prevents choosing one figure without explaining which group it describes.
The current 2026–2028 UT degree catalog lists 127 bachelor program rows. Expanding degree options and removing repeated joint listings produces 142 program-and-degree choices. The name-and-degree lookup gives 115 with one historical code candidate, nine with multiple candidates, and 18 with no matched label. Two single-code cases match the name while the degree abbreviation still needs checking. The data download includes every choice and its match status. Current official CIP assignments could not be confirmed from the state inventory, so these links remain historical candidates.
Use the current UT major directory for today’s degree options. A newly offered degree may share a federal field with older degrees without having a ten-year graduate history of its own.
All amounts below use the Texas definitions given above. “Not reported” means no figure in the workbook. The current and historical labels are not an admissions list.
| UT program and degree | Source CIP code | Texas, year 1 | Texas, year 5 | Texas, year 10 | Debt among borrowers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting - BBA | 52.0301 | $61,400 | $103,900 | $123,600 | $23,800 |
| Acting - BFA | 50.0506 | $35,300 | $55,800 | Not reported | $27,700 |
| Advertising - BSADV | 09.0903 | $56,200 | $88,100 | $122,200 | $25,300 |
| Aerospace Engineering - BSASE | 14.0201 | $81,100 | $109,500 | $131,200 | $28,700 |
| African And African Diaspora Studies - BA | 05.0201 | $47,400 | $61,900 | $69,000 | $31,800 |
| American Studies - BA | 05.0102 | $41,500 | $66,600 | $84,400 | $27,500 |
| Ancient History & Classical Civilization - BA | 30.2201 | Not reported | $68,900 | $68,400 | Not reported |
| Anthropology - BA | 45.0201 | $43,100 | $61,300 | $72,100 | $29,300 |
| Applied Learning & Development - BSALD | 30.9999 | $58,600 | $65,500 | $70,500 | $26,600 |
| Applied Movement Science - BSKH | 31.0505 | $37,500 | $76,700 | $86,300 | $28,000 |
| Arabic Language And Literature - BA | 16.1101 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Architectural Engineering - BSAE | 14.0401 | $77,300 | $103,500 | $127,600 | $26,800 |
| Architectural Studies - BSAS | 04.0201 | $53,600 | $66,800 | $84,900 | $29,700 |
| Architecture - BARCH | 04.0201 | $66,200 | $78,000 | $109,600 | $33,800 |
| Art Education - BFA | 50.0701 | $56,700 | $65,000 | $62,700 | $30,000 |
| Art History - BA | 50.0703 | $39,700 | Not reported | Not reported | $25,200 |
| Art History - BAART | 50.0703 | $43,700 | $56,700 | $98,900 | $33,100 |
| Arts And Entertainment Technologies - BSAET | 50.0102 | $41,500 | $63,100 | Not reported | $28,100 |
| Asian Cultures And Languages - BA | 16.0300 | $42,600 | $66,100 | $79,300 | $29,700 |
| Asian Studies - BA | 05.0103 | $41,300 | $60,100 | $64,800 | $22,100 |
| Astronomy - BA | 40.0201 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Astronomy - BSA | 40.0201 | $51,400 | $55,800 | Not reported | $28,400 |
| Astronomy - BSAST | 40.0201 | $52,900 | $66,800 | $124,000 | $30,400 |
| Athletic Training - BSAT | 51.0913 | $50,400 | $74,200 | $87,900 | $25,500 |
| Biochemistry - BA | 26.0202 | Not reported | Not reported | $90,400 | Not reported |
| Biochemistry - BSA | 26.0202 | $39,100 | $75,500 | $101,400 | $24,500 |
| Biochemistry - BSBCH | 26.0202 | $40,200 | $78,400 | $131,000 | $22,800 |
| Biological Sciences - BSES | 26.0101 | $49,200 | $69,000 | $75,900 | $28,800 |
| Biology - BA | 26.0101 | Not reported | $99,200 | $93,400 | Not reported |
| Biology - BSA | 26.0101 | $37,500 | $70,300 | $102,500 | $25,200 |
| Biology - BSBIO | 26.0101 | $40,900 | $71,300 | $97,700 | $23,300 |
| Biomedical Engineering - BSBME | 14.0501 | $74,600 | $116,900 | $159,800 | $29,100 |
| Business Administration - BBA | 52.0101 | $106,100 | $162,600 | $235,500 | $27,100 |
| Business Analytics - BBA | 30.7102 | $80,200 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Chemical Engineering - BSCHE | 14.0701 | $95,500 | $127,700 | $168,500 | $25,200 |
| Chemistry - BA | 40.0501 | Not reported | Not reported | $96,100 | Not reported |
| Chemistry - BSA | 40.0501 | $43,300 | $78,600 | $114,700 | $23,400 |
| Chemistry - BSCHM | 40.0501 | $52,000 | $72,400 | $109,100 | $23,900 |
| Civil Engineering - BSCE | 14.0801 | $81,400 | $105,100 | $135,000 | $24,100 |
| Classical Archaeology - BA | 45.0301 | Not reported | Not reported | $73,900 | Not reported |
| Classical Studies - BA | 16.1200 | $44,300 | $53,300 | $74,400 | $26,700 |
| Communication And Leadership - BSCMLD | 09.0901 | $54,400 | $65,700 | Not reported | $24,200 |
| Communication Sciences And Disorders - BSCSD | 51.0201 | $37,300 | $62,100 | $70,600 | $27,000 |
| Communication Studies - BSCOMST | 09.0101 | $57,600 | $83,400 | $118,700 | $23,900 |
| Composition - BM | 50.0904 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Computational Engineering - BSCOMPE | 30.3001 | $87,100 | $117,400 | Not reported | $24,000 |
| Computer Science - BA | 11.0101 | Not reported | $143,200 | $168,600 | Not reported |
| Computer Science - BSA | 11.0101 | $102,300 | $145,400 | $186,500 | $23,200 |
| Computer Science - BSCS | 11.0101 | $112,200 | $149,100 | $193,900 | $22,100 |
| Czech Language And Culture - BA | 16.0406 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Dance - BFA | 50.0301 | $42,900 | $51,900 | $67,100 | $23,900 |
| Design - BA | 50.0401 | $42,200 | Not reported | Not reported | $23,400 |
| Design - BAART | 50.0401 | $60,600 | $76,800 | Not reported | $25,400 |
| Design - BFA | 50.0401 | $51,900 | $72,300 | $130,200 | $25,200 |
| Economics - BA | 45.0601 | $69,000 | $105,400 | $138,800 | $28,400 |
| Economics - BSECO | 45.0603 | $62,000 | Not reported | Not reported | $19,500 |
| Education - BSED | 13.0101 | $57,400 | Not reported | Not reported | $28,100 |
| Electrical And Computer Engineering - BSECE | 14.1001 | $101,400 | Not reported | Not reported | $14,400 |
| Electrical Engineering - BSEE | 14.1001 | $103,800 | $145,900 | $176,700 | $23,900 |
| English - BA | 23.0101 | $43,200 | $61,000 | $75,800 | $24,600 |
| Environmental Engineering - BSENVE | 14.1401 | $80,100 | $99,300 | Not reported | $25,200 |
| Ethnic Studies - BA | 05.0200 | $43,200 | $67,100 | $89,000 | Not reported |
| European Studies - BA | 05.0106 | $41,300 | $61,900 | $98,500 | Not reported |
| Finance - BBA | 52.0801 | $86,800 | $134,600 | $187,900 | $24,800 |
| French Studies - BA | 05.0124 | $39,300 | Not reported | Not reported | $20,400 |
| French Studies - BA | 16.0901 | $56,900 | $71,300 | $71,400 | $25,600 |
| Geographical Sciences - BSES | 45.0701 | $60,100 | $78,800 | $97,200 | $27,600 |
| Geography - BA | 45.0701 | $50,800 | $74,100 | $98,300 | $26,700 |
| Geological Sciences - BAGEOSC | 40.0601 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Geological Sciences - BAGEOSCI | 40.0601 | Not reported | $109,000 | $71,300 | Not reported |
| Geophysics - BSGS | 40.0603 | Not reported | $91,600 | $128,400 | Not reported |
| Geosciences - BSES | 40.0601 | $47,900 | $84,700 | $75,400 | $15,800 |
| Geosciences - BSGS | 40.0601 | $55,300 | $71,200 | $106,000 | $25,100 |
| Geosystem Engineering And Hydrogeology - BSGEH | 40.0605 | Not reported | Not reported | $188,900 | Not reported |
| Geosystems Engineering And Hydrogeology - BSGEH | 14.3901 | $83,700 | $101,600 | Not reported | Not reported |
| German - BA | 16.0501 | $31,800 | $79,300 | $102,300 | Not reported |
| German, Scandinavian, And Dutch Studies - BA | 16.0502 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Government - BA | 45.1001 | $51,000 | $73,100 | $101,900 | $23,800 |
| Greek - BA | 16.1202 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Health And Society - BA | 51.2212 | $43,100 | $79,800 | Not reported | $24,200 |
| Health Promotion & Fitness - BSKIN | 51.2207 | Not reported | Not reported | $82,500 | Not reported |
| Health Promotion And Behavioral Science - BSKH | 51.2207 | $34,900 | $69,900 | $91,700 | $20,900 |
| Hebrew Language And Literature - BA | 16.1102 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| History - BA | 54.0101 | $45,600 | $63,400 | $78,700 | $30,200 |
| Human Development And Family Sciences - BSA | 19.0701 | $40,500 | $67,700 | $62,700 | $28,700 |
| Human Development And Family Sciences - BSA | 30.1701 | $41,600 | Not reported | Not reported | $20,000 |
| Human Development And Family Sciences - BSHDFS | 19.0701 | $43,600 | $65,900 | $84,400 | $27,500 |
| Human Development And Family Sciences - BSHDFS | 30.1701 | $41,500 | Not reported | Not reported | $26,100 |
| Human Dimensions Of Organizations - BA | 24.0199 | $60,200 | $78,700 | Not reported | $24,900 |
| Human Ecology - BA | 19.0101 | Not reported | Not reported | $91,900 | Not reported |
| Human Ecology - BSA | 19.0101 | $44,700 | $48,200 | Not reported | $30,400 |
| Humanities - BA | 24.0103 | $42,100 | $77,900 | Not reported | $26,900 |
| Hydrology And Water Resources - BSGS | 40.0605 | $57,800 | $89,900 | $89,700 | $23,000 |
| Iberian And Latin American Langs And Cultures - BA | 16.0908 | $53,400 | $66,400 | Not reported | $30,400 |
| Informatics - BA | 11.0104 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Informatics - BSI | 11.0104 | $61,500 | Not reported | Not reported | $20,600 |
| Interior Design - BSID | 50.0408 | $57,500 | $78,100 | $100,700 | $33,100 |
| International Business - BBA | 52.1101 | $66,600 | Not reported | Not reported | $23,900 |
| International Relations And Global Studies - BA | 30.2001 | $52,200 | $73,400 | $115,800 | $24,100 |
| Islamic Studies - BA | 38.0205 | Not reported | Not reported | $145,600 | Not reported |
| Italian Studies - BA | 05.0126 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Italian Studies - BA | 16.0902 | Not reported | Not reported | $117,200 | Not reported |
| Jazz - BM | 50.0910 | $39,400 | $26,200 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Jewish Studies - BA | 38.0206 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Journalism - BJ | 09.0401 | $46,500 | $68,400 | $89,700 | $25,800 |
| Kinesiology - BSKIN | 31.0505 | Not reported | Not reported | $87,500 | Not reported |
| Latin - BA | 16.1203 | Not reported | Not reported | $87,500 | Not reported |
| Latin American Studies - BA | 05.0107 | $50,700 | $61,100 | $82,700 | $25,500 |
| Linguistics - BA | 16.0102 | $45,100 | $67,000 | $75,200 | $20,900 |
| Management - BBA | 52.0201 | $99,200 | $91,100 | $124,600 | $21,700 |
| Management Information Systems - BBA | 52.1201 | $88,900 | $128,800 | $170,500 | $21,700 |
| Marketing - BBA | 52.1401 | $66,400 | $99,700 | $124,100 | $23,700 |
| Mathematics - BA | 27.0101 | $81,400 | $73,600 | $84,100 | $17,600 |
| Mathematics - BSA | 27.0101 | $63,900 | $88,100 | $138,900 | $26,800 |
| Mathematics - BSMTH | 27.0101 | $77,400 | $103,900 | $128,800 | $21,900 |
| Mathematics And Computer Science - BSIS | 30.0801 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Mechanical Engineering - BSME | 14.1901 | $88,400 | $114,300 | $150,600 | $23,700 |
| Medical Laboratory Science - BSCLS | 51.1005 | Not reported | $87,900 | $90,600 | Not reported |
| Medical Laboratory Science - BSMLS | 51.1005 | $77,400 | $76,000 | Not reported | $27,900 |
| Mexican American And Latina/O Studies - BA | 05.0203 | $43,400 | $65,900 | Not reported | $26,500 |
| Middle Eastern Languages And Cultures - BA | 16.1100 | $43,400 | $103,400 | Not reported | $30,800 |
| Middle Eastern Studies - BA | 05.0108 | $44,900 | $62,400 | $86,900 | $19,100 |
| Musc-Music Business - BM | 50.1003 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Musc-Recording Technology - BM | 50.0913 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Music - BAMUS | 50.0901 | $39,500 | $65,200 | $86,700 | $22,200 |
| Music Performance - BM | 50.0903 | $35,800 | $57,200 | $71,400 | $32,200 |
| Music Studies - BM | 50.0901 | $63,400 | $67,700 | $74,600 | $27,700 |
| Neur-Neurobiology - BS | 26.1501 | Not reported | $71,100 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Neur-Neurobiology - BSA | 26.1501 | $39,000 | $62,800 | Not reported | $27,000 |
| Neur-Neurobiology - BSNRSCI | 26.1501 | $37,100 | $70,000 | Not reported | $23,900 |
| Nursing - BSN | 51.3801 | $83,400 | $92,700 | $97,100 | $26,000 |
| Nutrition - BSA | 19.0501 | $42,800 | $69,700 | Not reported | $23,500 |
| Nutrition - BSA | 30.1901 | $34,200 | Not reported | Not reported | $20,700 |
| Nutrition - BSNTR | 19.0501 | $42,200 | $70,400 | $89,800 | $30,000 |
| Nutrition - BSNTR | 30.1901 | $37,500 | Not reported | Not reported | $21,600 |
| Persian Language And Literature - BA | 16.0801 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Petroleum Engineering - BSPE | 14.2501 | $117,100 | $143,200 | $226,100 | $22,500 |
| Philosophy - BA | 38.0101 | $42,500 | $77,800 | $87,400 | $27,600 |
| Physical Culture And Sports Studies - BSKH | 31.0501 | $48,900 | $68,600 | $101,700 | $30,200 |
| Physics - BA | 40.0801 | Not reported | Not reported | $137,300 | Not reported |
| Physics - BSA | 40.0801 | $55,200 | $76,800 | Not reported | $23,400 |
| Physics - BSPHY | 40.0801 | $57,100 | $80,500 | $128,400 | $28,200 |
| Plan II Honors Program - BA | 24.0101 | $70,600 | $120,000 | $148,500 | $22,800 |
| Portuguese - BA | 16.0904 | Not reported | Not reported | $84,100 | Not reported |
| Psychology - BA | 42.0101 | $41,700 | $62,200 | $82,500 | $22,700 |
| Psychology - BA | 42.2704 | $39,000 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Psychology - BSPSY | 42.0101 | $38,300 | $68,300 | $95,500 | $23,600 |
| Psychology - BSPSY | 42.2704 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Public Health - BS | 51.2201 | Not reported | $69,700 | $104,600 | Not reported |
| Public Health - BSPH | 51.2201 | $43,900 | $66,300 | Not reported | $24,600 |
| Public Relations - BSPR | 09.0902 | $55,700 | $85,400 | $123,800 | $25,200 |
| Race, Indigeneity, And Migration - BA | 30.2301 | $50,200 | Not reported | Not reported | $29,300 |
| Radio-Television-Film - BSRTF | 09.0701 | $39,100 | $60,400 | $77,200 | $25,900 |
| Religious Studies - BA | 38.0201 | $46,500 | $65,100 | $73,400 | $27,900 |
| Rhetoric And Writing - BA | 23.1301 | $46,400 | $69,600 | $80,300 | $26,300 |
| Russian Language And Culture - BA | 16.0402 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Russian, East European, And Eurasian Studies - BA | 05.0110 | $35,100 | $53,400 | $72,200 | $17,000 |
| Social Work - BSW | 44.0701 | $43,700 | $61,000 | $68,000 | $22,700 |
| Sociology - BA | 45.1101 | $47,000 | $69,400 | $86,200 | $26,400 |
| Spanish - BA | 16.0905 | $46,900 | $78,900 | $87,200 | $28,600 |
| Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences - BSSLH | 51.0201 | $39,200 | Not reported | Not reported | $17,700 |
| Sport Management - BSKH | 31.0504 | $54,500 | $78,500 | $115,300 | $22,600 |
| Sport Management - BSKIN | 31.0504 | Not reported | Not reported | $99,600 | Not reported |
| Studio Art - BA | 50.0702 | $34,500 | Not reported | Not reported | $19,000 |
| Studio Art - BAART | 50.0702 | $41,000 | $59,300 | $69,500 | $22,300 |
| Studio Art - BFA | 50.0702 | $32,600 | $54,200 | $65,900 | $27,500 |
| Supply Chain Management - BBA | 52.0203 | $76,400 | $116,300 | $154,900 | $24,900 |
| Sustainability Studies - BA | 30.3301 | $51,200 | $66,700 | Not reported | $22,900 |
| Textiles And Apparel - BSTA | 19.0901 | $50,600 | $69,100 | $90,300 | $27,100 |
| Theatre And Dance - BATD | 50.0101 | $34,300 | $59,800 | $70,800 | $33,100 |
| Theatre And Dance - BATD | 50.0512 | $38,700 | Not reported | Not reported | $24,600 |
| Theatre Education - BFA | 50.0501 | $61,800 | $66,700 | $72,000 | $30,700 |
| Urban Studies - BA | 45.1201 | $53,800 | $84,500 | $101,000 | $23,900 |
| Women's And Gender Studies - BA | 05.0207 | $50,200 | $54,600 | $76,300 | $29,300 |
How we got this
The investigation uses public seekUT exports, Census PSEO release R2026Q2, the October 15, 2026 College Scorecard field file, current UT catalog listings and school salary surveys, checked November 1, 2026. Source periods, money bases, work filters and missing results are stated beside the comparisons. The data download preserves the full tables, definitions, source hashes and reproducible calculations.
A current catalog choice can have one historical code candidate, several candidates or no matched earnings label. The lookup keeps those states visible. Current official code assignments remain unconfirmed where the state inventory could not be retrieved.
Source links
- seekUT Texas workbook
- seekUT’s Texas definitions
- Census PSEO download
- U.S. Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes program
- national workbook
- documented 2023 dollar basis
- College Scorecard field-of-study file
- federal loan simulator
- McCombs 2024–2025 BBA salary survey
- Cockrell salary page
- UT launched seekUT in 2014
- national Census collaboration began in 2018
- October 2026 documentation and cohort dictionary
- current 2026–2028 UT degree catalog