Program Payoff

Fine and Studio Arts programs in Texas

41 schools in Texas teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in Texas

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education in Texas earn a median of $63,590 a year across 111,660 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Texas
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary$77,5606,730
Photographers$41,2804,330
Art Directors$88,2702,480
Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers$47,5901,810
Craft Artists$54,690870

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 $11,000 not published 43
Alvin Community College Alvin Associate's degree not published 2
Amarillo College Amarillo Associate's degree not published 18
Angelina College Lufkin Associate's degree not published 0
Austin Community College District Austin Undergraduate certificate not published 15
Blinn College District Brenham Associate's degree not published 16
Central Texas College Killeen Associate's degree not published 4
College of the Mainland Texas City Associate's degree not published 4
Collin County Community College District McKinney Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Collin County Community College District McKinney Associate's degree not published 0
Del Mar College Corpus Christi Associate's degree not published 15
El Paso Community College El Paso Associate's degree not published 33
Galveston College Galveston Associate's degree not published
Grayson College Denison Associate's degree not published 6
Hill College Hillsboro Associate's degree not published 5
Houston Christian University Houston Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Houston City College Houston Associate's degree not published 34
Jacksonville College-Main Campus Jacksonville Associate's degree not published
Kilgore College Kilgore Associate's degree not published
Lamar State College-Port Arthur Port Arthur Associate's degree not published 3
Laredo College Laredo Associate's degree not published
Lee College Baytown Associate's degree not published 7
Navarro College Corsicana Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Navarro College Corsicana Associate's degree not published 0
Northeast Lakeview College Universal City 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 6
Palo Alto College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
Paris Junior College Paris Associate's degree not published 2
San Antonio College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
San Jacinto Community College Pasadena Associate's degree not published
South Plains College Levelland Associate's degree not published 1
South Texas College McAllen Associate's degree not published 18
St Philip's College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
Temple College Temple Associate's degree not published 9
Texarkana College Texarkana Associate's degree not published 3
Texas Southmost College Brownsville Associate's degree not published 12
Trinity Valley Community College Athens Associate's degree not published
Tyler Junior College Tyler Associate's degree not published 19
Western Texas College Snyder Associate's degree not published 1
Wharton County Junior College Wharton Associate's degree not published 2

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.