Undergraduate certificate · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Is Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions at Tulsa Technology Center 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 0.7 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: $52,314; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $55,882; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: Not enough borrowers to report; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Net cost to graduate, all families: $9k (likely $9k – $10k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 0.7 years (likely 0.5–0.9); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: $158k (likely $118k – $199k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $385k (likely $294k – $474k); Today's dollars
Odds of finishing (school-wide): 73%; Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26