Master's · Columbia, South Carolina

Is Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions at University of South Carolina-Columbia 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 5.7 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: $64,812; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $91,966; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $81,314; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published): $86k (likely $86k – $86k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $35k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in SC; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 5.7 years (likely 4.7–7.2); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: $50k (likely −$38k – $136k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $494k (likely $283k – $705k); Today's dollars

Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.