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CollegeROIData

College Debt & ROI in Tn

45 colleges and universities in Tn with 733 school+major combinations analyzed.

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45
Schools
$27K
Avg Median Debt
$56K
Avg Year 1 Earnings
100%
Avg Graduation Rate

All Schools in Tn

Strayer University-Tennessee

private · 6 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $5K
Avg earnings: $73K/yr

Baptist Health Sciences University

private · 5 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $19K
Avg earnings: $61K/yr

Nossi College of Art and Design

private · 2 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $21K
Avg earnings: $42K/yr

East Tennessee State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $21K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

The University of Tennessee Southern

public · 16 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $56K/yr

Bryan College-Dayton

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Tennessee Technological University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $62K/yr

Lane College

private · 13 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $58K/yr

Vanderbilt University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $64K/yr

Mid-South Christian College

private · 2 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $40K/yr

Rhodes College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $58K/yr

Tennessee State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $61K/yr

The University of Tennessee-Martin

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

The University of the South

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Middle Tennessee State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Cumberland University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

Fisk University

private · 16 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Southern Adventist University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

Tusculum University

private · 18 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Carson-Newman University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Belmont University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Milligan University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $61K/yr

Lipscomb University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Williamson Christian College

private · 2 majors · Grad rate: 86%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $59K/yr

University of Memphis

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

Johnson University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $47K/yr

Austin Peay State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $59K/yr

Tennessee Wesleyan University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Trevecca Nazarene University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Bethel University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

Maryville College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Lee University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $28K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

Visible Music College

private · 4 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $29K
Avg earnings: $44K/yr

Lincoln Memorial University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $29K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

Freed-Hardeman University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $30K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

King University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $30K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Le Moyne-Owen College

private · 13 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $32K
Avg earnings: $59K/yr

Christian Brothers University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $32K
Avg earnings: $64K/yr

Welch College

private · 13 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $33K
Avg earnings: $46K/yr

American Baptist College

private · 2 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $37K
Avg earnings: $41K/yr

South College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $37K
Avg earnings: $66K/yr

SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $42K
Avg earnings: $48K/yr

Union University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $43K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

Frequently Asked Questions

CollegeROIData tracks 45 colleges and universities in Tn, covering 733 school+major combinations with debt and earnings data.

The average median student debt across all school+major combinations in Tn is $27K. First-year earnings average $56K.

Among tracked schools, Strayer University-Tennessee has one of the lowest average debt levels in Tn. Use our school pages to compare ROI scores by major.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. college cost, debt, and post-graduation earnings dataset. The detail above comes directly from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. degree-granting institutions.

Every number on this page links back to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. degree-granting institutions. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, 2026.