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The University
of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Public College in Houston, TX. Median 10-year earnings $90,232.

Verdict High-return
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$90,232
Median debt at grad
$12,500
Federal loan default
0%

A decade after enrolling, the median The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center student earns $90,232 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Median debt at graduation is $12,500, a light load against those earnings.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.14 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
9:1

No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate body is just 322, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.

Financial Aid

Average net price
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
66%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
34%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 322 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price is not reported for this institution, which means there is no single what-you-pay number to compare — the aid participation rates below are the closest available proxy. Grant aid reaches 66% of students at an average of $4,878. 34% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.

Federal student loans went to 110 of these 322 students, totalling $928,248 — an average of $8,439 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Harris County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,280/mo
1 bedroom
$1,323/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,573/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

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How we evaluate The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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