Bachelor's · Kenosha, Wisconsin
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Carthage College 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $83,249
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,999
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $112k (likely $112k – $112k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $45k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.3 years (likely 2.8–4.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $150k (likely $67k – $241k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $635k (likely $459k – $835k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 66%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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