How much money will you earn with a degree from the University of Texas system? How much debt after graduation will you rack up? UT System officials have they say is the first of its kind to give salary and debt information of its students one to five years after graduation.
The idea for the site, , grew out of recommendations from the Student Debt Reduction Task Force, which has been looking at ways to address the growing student debt problem.
The website pulls data from the , , and the . The information is from students who graduated from 2007 to 2011 who worked full time in Texas one to five years after getting their bachelor鈥檚 degree.
Among the data current and prospective students can pull up:
Median earnings for graduates
Average student loan debt
Percent of graduates who continue their education
Numbers of semester credit hours required to earn a bachelor鈥檚 degree.
For those trying to access the information on an iPad or other kind of tablet, the to download an app.
