Bachelor's · Saint Paul, Minnesota
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Bethel 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 3.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,047
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $93,997
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,836
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $131k (likely $131k – $142k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $53k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.5 years (likely 3.1–4.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $191k (likely $110k – $259k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $762k (likely $605k – $931k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 72%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Bethel University
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$124,673
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$112,698
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$104,538
- Human Resources Management and Services (Graduate certificate)$101,518
- Human Resources Management and Services (Bachelor's)$101,195
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$97,008
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$96,278
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$90,134
- Physics (Bachelor's)$85,657
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$85,036
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$77,059
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$69,476
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Minnesota
- Walden University$106,892
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota$104,761
- Capella University$97,211
- Concordia University-Saint Paul$93,347
- Augsburg University$93,046
- Herzing University-Minneapolis$91,010
- Rasmussen University-Minnesota$87,330
- Minnesota State University Moorhead$86,563
- Gustavus Adolphus College$86,114
- The College of Saint Scholastica$85,824