Bachelor's · East Hartford, Connecticut
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Goodwin University 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 3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $99,862
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $106,830
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $36,123
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $135k (likely $135k – $186k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CT
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3 years (likely 2.6–3.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $293k (likely $192k – $395k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $998k (likely $822k – $1.21M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 51%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Goodwin University
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Connecticut
- University of Bridgeport$123,148
- University of Hartford$104,301
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- Fairfield University$101,831
- Southern Connecticut State University$98,870
- Quinnipiac University$98,641
- Western Connecticut State University$96,483
- Charter Oak State College$95,512
- University of Connecticut$92,601
- University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus$92,601