Bachelor's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $72,650
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $186k (likely $186k – $230k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $29k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.7 years (likely 5.9–13.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$133k (likely −$266k – $18k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $202k (likely −$52k – $516k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 61%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (First professional)$160,002
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (Master's)$147,762
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$141,852
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$135,100
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$132,366
- Optometry (First professional)$129,752
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$94,855
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$92,960
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$92,104
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Master's)$91,796
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs (Bachelor's)$90,224
- Public Health (Master's)$87,975
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at other schools in Massachusetts
- Boston University$78,431
- Springfield College$76,417
- American International College$72,747
- Merrimack College$68,209
- Bay Path University$65,018
- Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts$39,413
- Stonehill College$34,889
- Western New England University$34,132