Bachelor's · Dallas, Pennsylvania
Is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at Misericordia 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 6.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $73,489
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,181
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $171k (likely $171k – $171k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $34k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.7 years (likely 5.7–8.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$33k (likely −$100k – $33k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $357k (likely $220k – $506k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 73%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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