Weber State English (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in English Language and Literature, General
- Public university
- Ogden, UT
- About 32 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Weber State English graduates earn about what English graduates earn nationally, $34,224 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $12,399 in federal loans, less than at 98% of English programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying English degrees in Utah.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Utah and national columns are the medians across all English bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Weber State graduates earn about the national figure and about the same as the Utah median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Utah English program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Utah 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 42% 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 $131 a month, or 4.6% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
100% of graduates (25 of 25) were working in Utah one year after graduating. Prices in the Ogden area are about the same as the national average.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to English, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
$76,330Median pay in Utah. 11,030 people work in this job in Utah. 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.
Proofreaders and Copy Markers
$42,840Median pay in Utah. Nationally, jobs are projected to shrink 1% from 2025 to 2035, with about 1,100 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Weber State
English ranks 34th of 40 bachelor's programs at Weber State by first-year earnings. The top three are Construction Management ($82,914), Industrial Technology ($75,281), and Computer and Information Science ($74,865).
Other English bachelor's programs near Ogden
Common questions
The median graduate earns $34,224 one year after graduating and $48,433 five years after. The median across English bachelor's programs in Utah is $33,212.
The median federal loan balance is $12,399, which ranks 2nd lowest of 7 English bachelor's programs in Utah. That works out to about $131 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 36% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 77%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Utah programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
Most do. 100% (25 of 25) were working in Utah 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 Utah 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 English 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