Bachelor's · Montgomery, Alabama
Is Health and Medical Administrative Services at South University-Montgomery worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 8.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $48,350
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $50,360
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,374
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $101k (likely $101k – $129k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.5 years (likely 7.1–10.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$113k (likely −$179k – −$79k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $44k (likely −$29k – $115k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 12%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 5% / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at South University-Montgomery
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- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services (Associate's)$50,681
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- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$46,322
Health and Medical Administrative Services at other schools in Alabama
- Auburn University$74,392
- Columbia Southern University$61,821
- University of Alabama at Birmingham$53,021
- Herzing University-Birmingham$51,098