Master's · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Is Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Alverno College 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 10.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $65,501
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $73,484
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $54,027
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $57k (likely $57k – $57k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $9k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 10.5 years (likely 6.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$151k (likely −$232k – −$63k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$6k (likely −$189k – $199k)
- 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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Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at other schools in Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Stout$74,326
- Mount Mary University$72,860
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$71,120
- Ottawa University-Milwaukee$67,727
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee$66,931
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater$66,121
- Concordia University-Wisconsin$65,922
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse$65,909
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls$62,241
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire$61,416