UTEP Romance Languages (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Public university
- El Paso, TX
- About 4 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
UTEP Romance languages graduates earn about what Romance languages graduates earn nationally, $30,291 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $24,050 in federal loans, close to the national median of $22,067. Several Texas programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Texas and national columns are the medians across all Romance languages bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, UTEP graduates earn about the national figure and about the same as the Texas median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Texas Romance languages program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Texas medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 78% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $255 a month, or 10.1% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
90% of graduates (18 of 20) were working in Texas one year after graduating. Prices in the El Paso area are about 10% below the national average, so a $30,291 salary here buys what about $33,690 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to Romance languages, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
$63,590Median pay in Texas. 111,660 people work in this job in Texas. Nationally, jobs are projected to stay about the same in number from 2025 to 2035, with about 63,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Interpreters and Translators
$47,510Median pay in Texas. 6,780 people work in this job in Texas. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 2% from 2025 to 2035, with about 6,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About UTEP
Romance Languages ranks 22nd of 39 bachelor's programs at UTEP by first-year earnings. The top three are Electrical Engineering ($74,285), Computer and Information Science ($73,311), and Nursing ($72,429).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $30,291 one year after graduating and $53,955 five years after. The median across Romance languages bachelor's programs in Texas is $34,326.
The median federal loan balance is $24,050, which ranks 9th lowest of 10 Romance languages bachelor's programs in Texas. That works out to about $255 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 79% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 62%. Compare the cost with other Texas programs before deciding.
Most do. 90% (18 of 20) were working in Texas one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Texas comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the Romance languages program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024