Bachelor's · Billings, Montana
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Montana State University Billings 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $77,379
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,873
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $71k (likely $66k – $93k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $43k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MT
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.3 years (likely 1.6–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $184k (likely $50k – $353k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $653k (likely $384k – $1.00M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 31%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Montana State University Billings
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$90,008
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- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$67,304
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- Precision Metal Working (Associate's)$51,467
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Montana
- University of Providence$119,206
- Montana State University-Northern$93,394
- Montana Technological University$81,504
- Carroll College$80,878
- Montana State University$76,146