Bachelor's · Nashville, Tennessee
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Herzing University-Nashville 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,346
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $97,756
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,468
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $99k (likely $99k – $135k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $60k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.3–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $318k (likely $234k – $369k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.02M (likely $864k – $1.18M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Herzing University-Nashville
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Associate's)$86,632
- Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants (Undergraduate certificate)$71,753
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$70,854
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services (Associate's)$44,890
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services (Associate's)$41,354
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Associate's)$38,352
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Undergraduate certificate)$37,853
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services (Undergraduate certificate)$36,188
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Tennessee
- Strayer University-Tennessee$105,703
- Tennessee State University$92,380
- Christian Brothers University$92,007
- Galen Health Institutes-Nashville Campus$91,862
- Southern Adventist University$83,525
- King University$83,010
- Milligan University$82,961
- Baptist Health Sciences University$82,135
- Bethel University$80,794
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center$80,055