Bachelor's · South Orange, New Jersey
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Seton Hall 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 2.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $103,193
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $102,792
- 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
- $134k (likely $134k – $134k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $63k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.7 years (likely 2.4–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $291k (likely $216k – $369k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $892k (likely $753k – $1.05M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- 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 Seton Hall University
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- Thomas Edison State University$104,672
- The College of New Jersey$104,369
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- Ramapo College of New Jersey$103,534
- Monmouth University$103,184