Master's · Knoxville, Tennessee

Is Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions at South College 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 4.9 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: $119,791; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $136,916; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $191,578; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published): $203k (likely $203k – $203k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $78k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TN; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 4.9 years (likely 4.2–5.6); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: $310k (likely $213k – $417k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $1.24M (likely $994k – $1.52M); Today's dollars

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