Master's · Glenside, Pennsylvania
Is Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Arcadia University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 16.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $60,716
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $73,704
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $47,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $51k (likely $51k – $51k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $3k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 16.3 years (likely 8.2–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$214k (likely −$304k – −$117k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$118k (likely −$321k – $113k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$73,377
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$69,227
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Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Widener University$98,402
- Drexel University$73,898
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine$70,622
- La Salle University$67,707
- Holy Family University$67,113
- Temple University$65,578
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania$65,499
- Rosemont College$62,583
- University of Pennsylvania$61,890
- Immaculata University$61,059