Bachelor's · Brookville, New York
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Long Island 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $112,062
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $127,102
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $101k (likely $101k – $126k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $89k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.7 years (likely 1.6–2.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $619k (likely $552k – $674k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.67M (likely $1.47M – $1.86M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- 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 Long Island University
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$151,009
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- Helene Fuld College of Nursing$127,915
- CUNY Medgar Evers College$125,792
- Iona University$121,499
- University of Mount Saint Vincent$120,822
- Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing$119,316
- CUNY Lehman College$119,115
- New York University$118,433
- Mercy University$118,232
- New York Institute of Technology$117,461
- Molloy University$117,011