Master's · Bowling Green, Ohio
Is Student Counseling and Personnel Services at Bowling Green State University-Main Campus worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $48,861
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $59,049
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,604
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $27k (likely $27k – $27k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$4k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$230k (likely −$297k – −$154k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$227k (likely −$383k – −$44k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$106,176
- Fire Protection (Bachelor's)$93,820
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,626
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$89,989
- Engineering-Related Fields (Bachelor's)$89,514
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations (Bachelor's)$86,245
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$84,838
- Information Science/Studies (Bachelor's)$84,273
- Psychology, General (Doctoral)$82,522
- Construction Engineering (Bachelor's)$82,365
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$79,291
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$78,798
Student Counseling and Personnel Services at other schools in Ohio
- Miami University-Oxford$67,761
- Cleveland State University$54,706
- Ohio University-Main Campus$54,077
- University of Akron Main Campus$52,040
- Youngstown State University$51,304
- University of Dayton$50,614
- Kent State University at Kent$50,393
- Xavier University$49,762
- Wright State University-Main Campus$44,244