{"id":913,"date":"2022-11-28T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:28:43","slug":"impact-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/impact-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab7fd4d0d7fee72974cf5beda83d756d\" style=\"font-size:45px\"><strong>Impact by the Numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Student looking at another student\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-looking-at-another-student-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center impactnumbers has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong>$2.9 Billion Economic Impact<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-930ea625be16f29760bdf783cafe18a1\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Tarleton State added <strong>$2.9 Billion<\/strong> in income to the Texas economy, supporting 29,954 jobs. If the university did not exist, these impacts would not have been generated in Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Students together by John Tarleton\" class=\"wp-image-1267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Students-together-by-John-Tarleton-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center impactnumbers has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong>$1.4 Million Earnings Increase<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-785ce62681eaa9dc256ab5eafc7e054d\">Tarleton State bachelor&#8217;s degree recipients can expect to earn an undiscounted <strong>$1.4 Million<\/strong> more than high school graduates ($35,100 annually per graduate) over their working lives in Texas. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Student studying in the Library\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/310\/2025\/01\/Student-studying-in-the-Library-1568x1568.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center impactnumbers has-texan-white-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Added Tax Revenue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-texan-white-color has-text-color\">Tarleton State generates more in tax revenue than it receives. Taxpayers benefit from <strong>$229.6 Million <\/strong>in added tax revenue from Tarleton students working.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact by the Numbers $2.9 Billion Economic Impact Tarleton State added $2.9 Billion in income to the Texas economy, supporting 29,954 jobs. 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