Bachelor's · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Colorado Colorado Springs 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 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $84,531
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $84,752
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $63k (likely $63k – $85k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $41k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.8–2.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $133k (likely $58k – $188k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $510k (likely $405k – $614k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 46%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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 Colorado
- Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs$95,519
- Colorado Mountain College$92,166
- Colorado Christian University$87,990
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- Arizona College of Nursing-Aurora$87,378
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