University of the Incarnate Word Career Outcomes & Earnings

Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $63,004, in the 60th percentile. That is $5,246 below the $68,250 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Graduates earn about $14,355 more than the model expects for similar students. That puts the gap at the 91st percentile.

Azimuth places the university's return pillar in the 73rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds $4,773. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $9,582.

Program choice corresponds with a wide range of modeled earnings at University of the Incarnate Word. The downside earnings scenario is $46,635 and the upside scenario is $77,342, rather than observed groups of graduates.

Among programs with published earnings, Nursing completers have median earnings of $84,286 four years after completion; Human Resources Management and Services reaches $72,061, and Computer and Information Sciences reaches $65,405. These program figures show why the modeled range is broader than a schoolwide median can convey.

An estimated 28.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Because four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, the earnings figure describes the group not continuing directly into graduate study.

At University of the Incarnate Word, the program picture ranges from a higher-earning health field to larger fields with more moderate earnings. The program medians are measured four years after completion.

Nursing reports median earnings of $84,286 and 118 degrees awarded, while Human Resources Management and Services reaches $72,061 with 52 degrees awarded. Among larger programs, Business Administration and Management records $64,692 in median earnings and 152 degrees awarded.

Psychology is more moderate at $51,470, alongside 104 degrees awarded. The contrast shows that the school’s more numerous awards do not all sit in its highest-earning fields.

Program-level earnings place health and business-related fields at the front of the picture. Nursing awarded 118 degrees and its completers had median earnings of $84,286 four years after completion.

Human Resources Management and Services awarded 52 degrees, with median earnings of $72,061 at the same horizon. Computer and Information Sciences awarded 14 degrees and had median earnings of $65,405 four years after completion.

These award counts describe degrees awarded in one academic year, rather than the earnings cohort. The range across these fields makes the intended field an important part of the earnings picture.