Bachelor's · West Chester, Pennsylvania
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at West Chester University of Pennsylvania worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 2.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $98,241
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,278
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $16,418
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $105k (likely $105k – $133k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.3 years (likely 2.0–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $367k (likely $288k – $434k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.09M (likely $927k – $1.24M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Neumann University$98,754
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- Widener University$98,272