Bachelor's · Miami, Florida
Is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at Miami Dade 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 0.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $116,325
- 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
- $8,477
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $16k (likely $16k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $85k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.3 years (likely 0.2–0.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $692k (likely $563k – $819k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.61M (likely $1.34M – $1.89M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 47%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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