Bachelor's · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Is Human Services, General at Chestnut Hill College 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 10 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $51,340
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $51,961
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,959
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $92k (likely $92k – $120k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 10 years (likely 6.8–16.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$158k (likely −$227k – −$99k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$50k (likely −$152k – $59k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 10% / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Chestnut Hill College
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$95,650
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$80,579
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$66,885
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$65,756
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$62,814
- Security Science and Technology (Bachelor's)$60,744
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$59,588
- Human Services, General (Master's)$59,051
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$57,831
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Bachelor's)$51,339
- Business/Corporate Communications (Bachelor's)$48,643
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$47,591
Human Services, General at other schools in Pennsylvania
- University of Scranton$52,172
- Elizabethtown College$51,224
- Lincoln University$50,390
- Lancaster Bible College$42,735
- Geneva College$41,383
- Pennsylvania College of Technology$41,244