🎓 College profile
University of North Texas at Dallas
TX · Public · Large city · 3,939 applicants 2023
🎯 Parent/student verdict
LikelyAccessible for most applicants. Affordable on average — net price runs around $6,420/yr. Major value play for in-state residents.
✅ Best for
- In-state residents (tuition ~$9,595 — major value play)
- Students drawn to Business, Management, & Marketing or Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies (the two biggest majors)
- Families wanting a small undergraduate experience
🎯 The reality
- Bottom-quartile academic profile if: SAT below 820, or ACT below 14 (admitted-class quartiles; GPA floor is a calibrated heuristic where CDS not yet on file)
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price by income, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
🏛️ Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
📊 Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
💰 What families actually pay
Net price by family income
Net price = sticker price minus grant aid. This is what families actually pay out-of-pocket after scholarships and need-based aid — the most honest affordability signal there is. At University of North Texas at Dallas, the average net price is $6,420/yr across all families.
🔎 Earning over $110K? The federal brackets above lump every family from $110K to $1M+ into one row.
Need-based aid usually phases out somewhere between $200K and $300K at private colleges — but the exact threshold varies a lot. For a precise estimate based on your family's actual income, assets, and your student's academic profile, use University of North Texas at Dallas's official Net Price Calculator:
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Source: College Scorecard (NPT41-NPT45). Net price = total cost of attendance minus federal, state, institutional, and other grants. Some brackets may be suppressed for student-privacy reasons (small cohorts). Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates only. The $110K+ ceiling is a federal data limitation — Department of Education hasn't refreshed these brackets since the early 2010s.
📚 What students study here
Most popular majors at University of North Texas at Dallas
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what University of North Texas at Dallas actually graduates — not just what it markets.
Source: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a), bachelor's-level first majors aggregated to 2-digit CIP family. Share is of these top 5 only — not all majors.
💼 Top programs by earnings
Highest-earning majors at University of North Texas at Dallas
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major (CIP code). From the federal College Scorecard program-level outcomes.
| Major (CIP) | Credential | Cohort | 1-yr earnings | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting and Related Services. | Bachelor's Degree | 54 | — | $61,083 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | Bachelor's Degree | 229 | — | $58,293 |
| Business/Commerce, General. | Bachelor's Degree | 86 | — | $55,051 |
| Sociology. | Bachelor's Degree | 30 | — | $53,689 |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections. | Bachelor's Degree | 83 | — | $49,534 |
For full college-vs-major comparison + ROI leaderboards, see /college-outcomes →
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