Bachelor's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Massachusetts-Boston 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
- $89,958
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $102,738
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $96k (likely $96k – $131k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $59k 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 2.3–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $285k (likely $196k – $342k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $977k (likely $816k – $1.16M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 51%
- 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-Boston
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$126,694
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$125,777
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- Special Education and Teaching (Graduate certificate)$83,597
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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
- 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
- Westfield State University$93,248