Bachelor's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $90,533
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $99,850
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,000
- 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
- $56k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.6 years (likely 4.2–5.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $152k (likely $53k – $205k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $799k (likely $646k – $945k)
- 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
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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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
- 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
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (First professional)$84,530
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Massachusetts
- College of Our Lady of the Elms$97,773
- Framingham State University$96,620
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$95,648
- Salem State University$95,550
- American International College$95,137
- Boston College$94,867
- Regis College$94,329
- Laboure College of Healthcare$94,168
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$93,650
- Endicott College$93,307