Bachelor's · Louisville, Kentucky
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Spalding 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 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $83,142
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $83,763
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $103k (likely $103k – $119k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $47k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in KY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 2.5–3.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $188k (likely $118k – $250k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $644k (likely $518k – $770k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 45%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Spalding University
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- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Doctoral)$64,058
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- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$61,178
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- University of the Cumberlands$94,183
- Galen College of Nursing-Louisville$91,862
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- Morehead State University$85,740
- Eastern Kentucky University$83,920
- University of Pikeville$82,972
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- Thomas More University$82,426
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