Bachelor's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Health and Medical Administrative Services at Northeastern 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,749
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $86,180
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $95k (likely $80k – $110k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $43k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4 years (likely 3.4–4.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $65k (likely −$24k – $161k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $589k (likely $406k – $792k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 91%
- 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 Northeastern University
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$169,234
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$163,708
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- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (Master's)$136,474
Health and Medical Administrative Services at other schools in Massachusetts
- Stonehill College$82,254
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$80,233
- Cambridge College$64,329
- Fisher College$63,505
- College of Our Lady of the Elms$62,641
- Salem State University$55,323