Master's · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Is Health and Medical Administrative Services at University of Pennsylvania worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 0.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $196,385
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $251,343
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $180k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.6 years (likely 0.5–0.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $1.55M (likely $1.31M – $1.80M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $3.66M (likely $3.07M – $4.28M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$316,195
- Law (First professional)$302,120
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$272,321
- Marketing (Master's)$255,357
- International/Globalization Studies (Master's)$253,631
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (Master's)$252,729
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other (Master's)$250,392
- Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Undergraduate certificate)$246,660
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$241,380
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology (Master's)$237,136
- Real Estate (Master's)$230,624
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$222,544
Health and Medical Administrative Services at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University$150,366
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg$111,065
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus$111,065
- Pennsylvania State University-World Campus$111,065
- Drexel University$98,899
- Thomas Jefferson University$98,597
- Temple University$94,956
- University of Scranton$93,756
- Widener University$91,655
- Point Park University$89,825