Education

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

North Dakota State University-Main Campus · Fargo, ND

Medium evidenceMatched peers10 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$15,511Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded8Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Doctoral · 1 year after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$71,015
Education · national$76,460

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 10 matched peer institutions · doctoral

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $67,772–$77,122.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Doctoral outcomes · 1 year after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
University of WyomingEducation, General$71,575
Tarleton State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$71,015
University of Nevada-Las VegasCurriculum and Instruction$71,015
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityEducation, General$67,101
University of MemphisEducational Administration and Supervision$78,971
Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main CampusEducational Administration and Supervision$89,968
Illinois State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$89,769
University of KansasCurriculum and Instruction$65,238
Frostburg State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$69,783
University of Cincinnati-Main CampusSocial and Philosophical Foundations of Education, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$56,839
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗