Bachelor's · Amherst, Massachusetts
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Massachusetts-Amherst worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $91,449
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $97,003
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,120
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $97k (likely $97k – $100k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $53k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.2–3.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $235k (likely $171k – $303k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $811k (likely $671k – $956k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 81%
- 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 University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$165,473
- Computer Science (Master's)$154,099
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$126,453
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$123,519
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$113,083
- Education, General (Doctoral)$110,816
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$109,628
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$106,958
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$101,091
- Microbiological Sciences and Immunology (Master's)$100,729
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$100,516
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$98,155
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