Bachelor's · University Park, Pennsylvania
Is Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 11.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $41,260
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $55,462
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,375
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $143k (likely $143k – $174k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11.7 years (likely 9.8–15.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$192k (likely −$261k – −$149k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $18k (likely −$92k – $133k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 85%
- 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 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$166,387
- Information Science/Studies (Master's)$158,815
- Physics (Master's)$150,865
- Systems Engineering (Master's)$145,507
- Information Science/Studies (Post-baccalaureate certificate)$141,703
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- Business/Commerce, General (Post-baccalaureate certificate)$134,050
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions at other schools in Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh-Bradford$75,950
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus$75,950
- Saint Francis University$72,821
- Duquesne University$72,059
- Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania$52,743
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Wilkes-Barre$51,635
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley$51,635
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks$51,635
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton$51,635
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington$51,635