Undergraduate certificate · Newark, Delaware
Is Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services at Dawn Career Institute LLC worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $36,761
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $37,790
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $9,254
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $15k (likely $15k – $21k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$929 a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in DE
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$76k (likely −$101k – −$51k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$96k (likely −$142k – −$48k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 76%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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