Bachelor's · Tempe, Arizona
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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
- $91,794
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $93,855
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $42,416
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $137k (likely $137k – $137k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $54k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AZ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.3 years (likely 3.0–3.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $204k (likely $163k – $245k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $744k (likely $659k – $831k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 83%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Arizona
- University of Phoenix-Arizona$109,844
- Aspen University$109,265
- Grand Canyon University$103,884
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- Pima Medical Institute-Tucson$91,858
- Brookline College-Phoenix$91,208
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- Arizona College of Nursing-Phoenix$87,378