Bachelor's · Salt Lake City, Utah
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Westminster University 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 2.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $83,526
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $85,969
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $95k (likely $95k – $115k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $44k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in UT
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.5–3.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $146k (likely $62k – $216k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $591k (likely $437k – $732k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 64%
- 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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Other majors at Westminster University
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Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Utah
- Western Governors University$97,114
- Joyce University of Nursing and Health Sciences$89,441
- Arizona College of Nursing-Salt Lake City$87,378
- University of Utah$86,243
- Eagle Gate College-Murray$83,154
- Eagle Gate College-Layton$83,154
- Utah Valley University$81,664
- Utah Tech University$80,852
- Provo College$79,485
- Nightingale College$79,165