Program Payoff

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities programs in Kentucky

30 schools in Kentucky teach this, at certificate or associate level. 18 of them report what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $30,228 at Jefferson Community and Technical College.

What this work pays in Kentucky

Postsecondary Teachers, All Other in Kentucky earn a median of $67,690 a year across 4,120 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

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

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Jefferson Community and Technical College Louisville Associate's degree $10,500 $30,228 (129 grads) 769
Eastern Kentucky University Richmond Associate's degree $12,000 $27,204 (27 grads) 45
Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lexington Associate's degree $9,723 $25,865 (244 grads) 870
Maysville Community and Technical College Maysville Associate's degree $10,879 $23,456 (51 grads) 189
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College Bowling Green Associate's degree $8,603 $23,003 (90 grads) 308
West Kentucky Community and Technical College Paducah Associate's degree $7,620 $22,786 (79 grads) 262
Gateway Community and Technical College Florence Associate's degree $11,675 $22,378 (56 grads) 252
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Elizabethtown Associate's degree $8,811 $22,329 (108 grads) 510
Owensboro Community and Technical College Owensboro Associate's degree $6,925 $22,034 (97 grads) 336
Henderson Community College Henderson Associate's degree $9,126 $21,508 (24 grads) 116
Hopkinsville Community College Hopkinsville Associate's degree $6,999 $21,166 (102 grads) 250
Madisonville Community College Madisonville Associate's degree $7,825 $20,921 (31 grads) 173
Hazard Community and Technical College Hazard Associate's degree $8,986 $20,140 (56 grads) 170
Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Associate's degree $15,303 $19,749 (36 grads) 40
Somerset Community College Somerset Associate's degree $11,992 $19,592 (96 grads) 317
Big Sandy Community and Technical College Prestonsburg Associate's degree $7,500 $18,467 (81 grads) 191
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College Cumberland Associate's degree $7,618 $18,315 (104 grads) 202
Ashland Community and Technical College Ashland Associate's degree $12,000 $17,824 (78 grads) 148
Morehead State University Morehead Associate's degree $19,979 not published 33
Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights Associate's degree $18,625 not published 15
Asbury University Wilmore Associate's degree not published 3
Brescia University Owensboro Associate's degree not published 2
Campbellsville University Campbellsville Associate's degree not published 6
Kentucky State University Frankfort Associate's degree not published 14
Kentucky Wesleyan College Owensboro Associate's degree not published 1
Murray State University Murray Associate's degree not published 21
Simmons College of Kentucky Louisville Associate's degree not published 3
Thomas More University Crestview Hills Associate's degree not published
University of the Cumberlands Williamsburg Associate's degree not published 5
Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Undergraduate certificate not published 0

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.