Master's · Royal Palm Beach, Florida

Is Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services at South University-West Palm Beach worth it?

Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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: $240,017; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $236,897; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $160,299; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published): $170k (likely $170k – $170k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $174k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in FL; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 1.7 years (likely 1.3–2.1); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: $1.31M (likely $994k – $1.66M); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $3.01M (likely $2.40M – $3.71M); Today's dollars

Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.