Graduates earn a median $104,192 two years after finishing, more than 97% of master's majors. Measured across 477 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Yes, on the money — this is one of the best-paying majors at this level in the country.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quinnipiac University | $87,682 | $125,015 | $135,148 | 62 |
| 2 | Hofstra University cost & debt at this university → | $116,739 | $121,145 | $127,774 | 75 |
| 3 | Wagner College cost & debt at this university → | $113,203 | $116,354 | $121,688 | 40 |
| 4 | James Madison University cost & debt at this university → | $106,893 | $116,083 | $116,887 | 42 |
| 5 | Samuel Merritt University | $124,643 | $116,083 | $121,450 | 38 |
| 6 | Loma Linda University cost & debt at this university → | $128,085 | $115,824 | $115,801 | 41 |
| 7 | St Catherine University | $110,868 | $115,208 | $122,737 | 32 |
| 8 | University of Bridgeport cost & debt at this university → | $111,740 | $115,020 | $120,962 | 35 |
| 9 | Stony Brook University | $107,469 | $114,892 | $132,337 | 84 |
| 10 | Springfield College | $117,773 | $114,595 | $129,174 | 38 |
| 11 | Touro University Nevada | $115,034 | $114,446 | $123,358 | 75 |
| 12 | Touro University California | $115,034 | $114,446 | $123,358 | 36 |
Two medians are worth separating. $104,192 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $102,326 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median master's major in this dataset reports $52,837, so Allied Health Diagnostic sits above the middle by $51,355.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (CIP 5109). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.