Master's · Chicago, Illinois
Is Health and Medical Administrative Services at Rush University 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 2.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $98,238
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $129,453
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $60,511
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $64k (likely $64k – $64k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $65k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.6 years (likely 2.1–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $373k (likely $214k – $525k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.16M (likely $811k – $1.52M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Rush University
- Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical Studies (Master's)$240,659
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$149,869
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Graduate certificate)$149,418
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$132,917
- Medicine (First professional)$97,168
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$91,030
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions (Graduate certificate)$88,841
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$85,450
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Doctoral)$85,445
- Biotechnology (Master's)$85,207
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions (Master's)$82,177
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$81,137
Health and Medical Administrative Services at other schools in Illinois
- Loyola University Chicago$150,553
- University of Illinois Chicago$115,859
- University of St Francis$108,702
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville$94,737
- National Louis University$78,175
- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science$70,161
- Rasmussen University-Illinois$68,545
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$60,911