Bachelor's · Jonesboro, Arkansas
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Arkansas State University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $84,702
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $95,179
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,320
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $65k (likely $65k – $87k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $60k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.7 years (likely 1.5–2.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $372k (likely $298k – $443k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.08M (likely $918k – $1.26M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Arkansas State University
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$146,230
- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$102,712
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$98,691
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$91,665
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor's)$83,270
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Doctoral)$82,724
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$79,309
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Associate's)$76,671
- Public Administration (Master's)$76,032
- Homeland Security (Master's)$75,019
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$73,394
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$71,940
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Arkansas
- University of Arkansas Grantham$91,135
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock$88,617
- University of Arkansas$84,911
- Arkansas Tech University$84,719
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences$79,413
- University of Central Arkansas$76,783
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith$73,708
- Harding University$71,872
- University of Arkansas at Monticello$71,629
- Southern Arkansas University Main Campus$70,185