Program Payoff

Engineering, General programs in Texas

41 schools in Texas teach this, at certificate or associate level. 1 of them reports what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $46,087 at Austin Community College District.

What this work pays in Texas

Architectural and Engineering Managers in Texas earn a median of $171,370 a year across 19,030 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Texas
Engineers, All Other$115,81010,820
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary$123,2804,080

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Austin Community College District Austin Associate's degree $7,113 $46,087 (12 grads) 74
Amarillo College Amarillo Associate's degree not published 30
Angelina College Lufkin Associate's degree not published 0
Blinn College District Brenham Associate's degree not published 13
Central Texas College Killeen Associate's degree not published 8
Collin County Community College District McKinney Undergraduate certificate not published
Collin County Community College District McKinney Associate's degree not published 3
Dallas Baptist University Dallas Associate's degree not published
El Paso Community College El Paso Associate's degree not published 0
Grayson College Denison Associate's degree not published 4
Howard College Big Spring Associate's degree not published 7
Lamar Institute of Technology Beaumont Associate's degree not published 0
Lamar State College-Orange Orange Associate's degree not published 0
Laredo College Laredo Associate's degree not published
Lone Star College System The Woodlands Associate's degree not published 19
McLennan Community College Waco Undergraduate certificate not published 10
McLennan Community College Waco Associate's degree not published 0
Midland College Midland Undergraduate certificate not published 1
Midland College Midland Associate's degree not published 0
Navarro College Corsicana Associate's degree not published 0
Northwest Vista College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
Odessa College Odessa Associate's degree not published 7
Palo Alto College San Antonio Associate's degree not published
Paris Junior College Paris Associate's degree not published 12
San Antonio College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 1
San Jacinto Community College Pasadena Associate's degree not published 54
South Plains College Levelland Associate's degree not published 1
South Texas College McAllen Associate's degree not published 56
Southwest College for the Deaf Big Spring Associate's degree not published 1
Southwest Texas College Uvalde Associate's degree not published 3
St Philip's College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
Tarrant County College District Fort Worth Associate's degree not published 23
Texarkana College Texarkana Associate's degree not published 1
Texas A&M University-College Station College Station Undergraduate certificate not published 60
Texas A&M University-Kingsville Kingsville Undergraduate certificate not published
Texas State Technical College Waco Associate's degree not published 3
The University of Texas at Austin Austin Undergraduate certificate not published 40
Trinity Valley Community College Athens Associate's degree not published
Tyler Junior College Tyler Associate's degree not published 7
Western Texas College Snyder Associate's degree not published 0
Wharton County Junior College Wharton Associate's degree not published 7

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.