Education

Curriculum and Instruction

University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL

Medium evidenceMatched peers11 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$29,360Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded7Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Doctoral · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$71,854
Same subject · national$70,456
Education · national$78,343

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 11 matched peer institutions · doctoral

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $68,080–$72,465.

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 · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Florida Atlantic UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$72,796
Wayne State UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$72,899
New Mexico State University-Main CampusCurriculum and Instruction$69,338
Texas Tech UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$53,775
University of HoustonCurriculum and Instruction$53,984
Kent State University at KentCurriculum and Instruction$71,957
Northern Illinois UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$84,913
Kennesaw State UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$66,821
Georgia Southern UniversityCurriculum and Instruction$72,134
University of West FloridaCurriculum and Instruction$71,854
Arizona State University Campus ImmersionCurriculum and Instruction$70,456
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 ↗