Bachelor's · Millersville, Pennsylvania
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Millersville University of Pennsylvania 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 1.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $97,948
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,496
- 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
- $80k (likely $80k – $108k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.8 years (likely 1.5–2.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $392k (likely $304k – $470k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.12M (likely $957k – $1.28M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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