Bachelor's · North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,803
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $92,536
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $86k (likely $86k – $116k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $49k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.2–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $194k (likely $110k – $256k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $711k (likely $580k – $841k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- 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 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$148,729
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- American International College$95,137
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- Regis College$94,329
- Laboure College of Healthcare$94,168
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$93,650
- Endicott College$93,307