Bachelor's · Center Valley, Pennsylvania
Is Health and Medical Administrative Services at DeSales University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $56,573
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $124k (likely $124k – $128k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $20k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.1 years (likely 5.3–15.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$118k (likely −$220k – $627)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $92k (likely −$116k – $336k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Health and Medical Administrative Services at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Duquesne University$95,128
- University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg$83,516
- University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown$83,516
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus$83,516
- University of Scranton$76,932
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Shenango$75,396
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley$75,396
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Beaver$75,396
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg$75,396
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton$75,396