Bachelor's · Lexington, Kentucky
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Kentucky 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
- $86,604
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $88,015
- 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
- $80k (likely $80k – $104k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $52k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in KY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.8–2.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $259k (likely $196k – $307k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $767k (likely $680k – $858k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 72%
- 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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Other majors at University of Kentucky
- Dentistry (First professional)$185,878
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$135,755
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Graduate certificate)$126,624
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (First professional)$119,485
- Medicine (First professional)$115,241
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$114,151
- Business/Commerce, General (Master's)$111,868
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$103,270
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$100,533
- Public Health (Master's)$100,253
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$99,945
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$99,535
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Kentucky
- Kentucky Christian University$96,766
- University of the Cumberlands$94,183
- Galen College of Nursing-Louisville$91,862
- Union Commonwealth University$87,221
- Morehead State University$85,740
- Eastern Kentucky University$83,920
- University of Pikeville$82,972
- Bellarmine University$82,814
- Thomas More University$82,426
- Campbellsville University$79,651