Bachelor's · Detroit, Michigan
Is Dental Support Services and Allied Professions at University of Detroit Mercy worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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
- $67,202
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $68,061
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,918
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $57k (likely $57k – $72k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $31k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 1.8–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $83k (likely −$354 – $185k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $384k (likely $220k – $582k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 74%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at University of Detroit Mercy
- Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Master's)$207,569
- Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Graduate certificate)$186,061
- Dentistry (First professional)$173,975
- Engineering, Other (Master's)$136,437
- Systems Engineering (Graduate certificate)$133,531
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- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$123,006
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$120,770
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$114,205
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$104,683
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$96,907
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$94,382
Dental Support Services and Allied Professions at other schools in Michigan
- Ferris State University$63,582
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$59,402