Undergraduate certificate · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Is Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services at Delta College South worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $31,286
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $30,042
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $5,800
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $24k (likely $21k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$5k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$125k (likely −$154k – −$96k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$198k (likely −$255k – −$146k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 57%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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