Bachelor's · New York, New York
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at CUNY Hunter College 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 0.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $122,389
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $124,986
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $4k (likely $4k – $6k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $87k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.1 years (likely 0.1–0.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $706k (likely $632k – $777k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.59M (likely $1.45M – $1.73M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at CUNY Hunter College
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- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions (Bachelor's)$104,791
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- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (Graduate certificate)$99,597
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- New York University$118,433
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- Mercy University$118,232
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