COLLEGES · 30-YEAR ROI · PRAIRIE VIEW, TX
Is Prairie View A & M University worth the money?
Yes — at resident pricing. A Prairie View A & M University degree clears +$1.90M in 30-year projected net value over skipping college and investing the difference.
A public four-year school in Prairie View, Texas, priced as a Texas resident — earnings rolled up from 27 FREOPP-reported programs.
IPEDS 2023 cost · FREOPP 2021 earnings · BEA 2023 cost-of-living · same model as /worth-it · this school clears positive net value.
- 30-year net value · resident pricing
- +$1.90M
- Median earnings · 10 yrs after entry
- $60,936
- Breaks even by age
- 37
- FREOPP program coverage
- 27 programs
Prairie View A & M University tuition & cost
- Annual tuition · Texas resident
- $11,299
- Annual tuition · out-of-state
- $26,874
- Total cost of attendance (4 years, sticker)
- $86,464
Sticker tuition, before aid. Priced as a Texas resident; the out-of-state line is the non-resident rate. Total cost of attendance adds fees, housing, and living costs over 4 years (IPEDS 2023).
Coming from out of state?
Still worth it — at non-resident tuition, Prairie View A & M University clears +$1.37M over the same 30-year horizon, on a total sticker cost of $148,764. The residency line is worth $530K to you here — same school, same degree (the out-of-state tax in Texas, ranked).
How this is computed (and what it isn’t)
Prairie View A & M University runs through the /worth-it model at its resident tuition rate, with the standard loan assumptions, a 30-year horizon, and Texas’s own cost-of-living on the skip-college path. The “30-year net value” is the projected accumulated value of going vs. skipping and investing the difference, in real dollars.
What it isn’t: a verdict on every major. The school-level number averages across 27 FREOPP-reported programs — the field you pick swings it by over a million dollars on its own. We only publish school pages that clear positive net value at resident pricing; earnings roll up from at least three FREOPP programs (ADR-0032), so a single high-earning major can’t fake the number.
Questions
- Is Prairie View A & M University worth the money?
- At resident pricing, yes: Prairie View A & M University clears +$1.90M in 30-year projected net value versus skipping college and investing the difference. That is computed from a total cost of attendance of $86,464 and median earnings of $60,936 ten years after entry (IPEDS 2023 cost, FREOPP 2021 earnings, BEA 2023 cost-of-living — the same model as the LE TEEN calculator).
- How much is tuition at Prairie View A & M University?
- Prairie View A & M University's annual sticker tuition is $11,299 for Texas residents and $26,874 for out-of-state students, before financial aid. Total cost of attendance over 4 years — tuition plus fees, housing, and living costs — is $86,464 (IPEDS 2023).
- What is the total cost of Prairie View A & M University?
- Over 4 years, Prairie View A & M University's sticker cost of attendance is $86,464 at resident pricing, or $148,764 out-of-state — tuition, fees, housing, and living costs at Texas prices, before financial aid. Median earnings ten years after entry are $60,936.
- What is out-of-state tuition at Prairie View A & M University?
- Non-resident annual sticker tuition at Prairie View A & M University is $26,874, versus $11,299 for Texas residents — a premium of $15,575 a year. Even at the non-resident rate, Prairie View A & M University clears positive 30-year net value.
- How long until a Prairie View A & M University degree pays for itself?
- The degree path overtakes the skip-college path around age 37 under our defaults — from there the gap only widens, ending +$1.90M ahead at the 30-year horizon.
- What could change the number for Prairie View A & M University?
- Two levers dominate. Residency: this page prices Prairie View A & M University as a Texas resident; at non-resident tuition it still clears +$1.37M, but the gap is real money (see the out-of-state tax in Texas). And the major: the field you pick swings lifetime ROI by over a million dollars on its own (see the majors pages).
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Cite this:
LE TEEN (2026). “Is Prairie View A & M University worth the money? 30-year ROI.” Data: IPEDS 2023 · FREOPP 2021 · BEA 2023. https://le-teen.com/colleges/prairie-view-a-and-m-university