Bachelor's · Waukesha, Wisconsin
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Carroll 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 3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $84,793
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $84,531
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $103k (likely $103k – $116k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $44k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3 years (likely 2.6–3.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $134k (likely $63k – $201k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $544k (likely $419k – $674k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- 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 Carroll University
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- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (First professional)$82,601
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- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$79,438
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$72,062
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$71,598
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$67,070
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at other schools in Wisconsin
- Ottawa University-Milwaukee$92,782
- Herzing University-Madison$91,010
- Herzing University-Kenosha$91,010
- Herzing University-Brookfield$91,010
- Bryant & Stratton College-Wauwatosa$89,336
- Marquette University$88,069
- Rasmussen University-Wisconsin$87,330
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$85,579
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay$84,588
- Milwaukee School of Engineering$82,822