Graduate certificate · San German, Puerto Rico

Is Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German 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 8.3 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: $38,333; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $37,881; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $15,000; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published): $16k (likely $16k – $16k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $3k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PR; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 8.3 years (likely 2.9–20+); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: −$33k (likely −$82k – $21k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: −$19k (likely −$119k – $89k); Today's dollars
Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in: not reported / ≤ 20%; NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20

Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.