Associate's · State College, Pennsylvania
Is Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services at South Hills School of Business & Technology worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $38,702
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $37,775
- 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
- $50k (likely $50k – $50k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$1k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$156k (likely −$204k – −$104k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$193k (likely −$284k – −$88k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at South Hills School of Business & Technology
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Undergraduate certificate)$75,457
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Associate's)$71,444
- Computer Science (Associate's)$51,162
- Accounting and Related Services (Associate's)$42,383
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Undergraduate certificate)$37,834
- Marketing (Associate's)$35,722
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Associate's)$33,870
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Associate's)$33,726
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Widener University$76,784
- Pennsylvania Western University$62,740
- Harcum College$57,557
- Montgomery County Community College$56,518
- Pennsylvania Institute of Technology$51,507
- Central Penn College$47,032
- Lackawanna College$46,617
- Lehigh Carbon Community College$46,503
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Shenango$46,356
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks$46,356