Bachelor's · Baltimore, Maryland
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Notre Dame of Maryland University 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 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $88,696
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,894
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,624
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $73k (likely $73k – $91k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MD
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.6–2.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $394k (likely $308k – $476k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.17M (likely $959k – $1.39M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 44%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Notre Dame of Maryland University
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$130,109
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- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$63,218
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$55,294
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- Frostburg State University$86,331
- Salisbury University$86,233