Master's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions at Suffolk University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,229
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $81,944
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $10k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9 years (likely 4.9–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$141k (likely −$265k – −$12k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $24k (likely −$248k – $330k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Suffolk University
- Business/Managerial Economics (Master's)$195,072
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$125,542
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (Doctoral)$123,199
- Taxation (Master's)$114,731
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$107,236
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$104,109
- Law (Doctoral)$103,969
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$99,661
- Public Administration (Master's)$92,015
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$90,090
- Information Science/Studies (Bachelor's)$86,406
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$86,396
Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions at other schools in Massachusetts
- MGH Institute of Health Professions$85,304
- Bay Path University$79,114
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$68,868
- Boston College$68,060
- Merrimack College$63,360
- Cambridge College$63,194
- William James College$60,955
- Lesley University$60,700
- Fitchburg State University$60,251
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary$56,074