Bachelor's · Charleston, South Carolina
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Charleston Southern University 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 2.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $79,280
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $80,747
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $88k (likely $88k – $113k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $44k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in SC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.7 years (likely 2.3–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $171k (likely $95k – $242k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $605k (likely $481k – $737k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 50%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in South Carolina
- South University-Columbia$91,363
- Claflin University$83,436
- Coastal Carolina University$82,887
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- University of South Carolina-Upstate$79,947
- Medical University of South Carolina$78,576
- University of South Carolina Aiken$78,231
- Anderson University$76,147
- Lander University$75,458
- Clemson University$74,491