Bachelor's · Edmond, Oklahoma
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Central Oklahoma 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $77,276
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $88,726
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $82k (likely $78k – $109k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $53k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.1–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $266k (likely $186k – $345k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $895k (likely $718k – $1.09M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 36%
- 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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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Oklahoma
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- Oklahoma Panhandle State University$92,450
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University$89,549
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University$89,006
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- Northwestern Oklahoma State University$85,283
- University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center$84,009
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$84,009
- Langston University$83,643