Graduates earn a median $39,009 two years after finishing, more than 54% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 605 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baptist Health System School of Health Professions | $71,916 | $76,460 | $56,447 | 7 |
| 2 | Georgetown University | $56,838 | $70,176 | not published | 29 |
| 3 | New England College | $33,990 | $65,332 | not published | 2 |
| 4 | University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus | not published | $63,005 | $71,416 | — |
| 5 | University of Connecticut-Stamford | not published | $63,005 | $71,416 | — |
| 6 | University of Connecticut-Avery Point | not published | $63,005 | $71,416 | — |
| 7 | University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus | not published | $63,005 | $71,416 | — |
| 8 | University of Connecticut | not published | $63,005 | $71,416 | 26 |
| 9 | University of St Francis | $62,462 | $61,516 | $63,004 | 68 |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire cost & debt at this university → | $60,259 | $61,350 | $67,416 | 35 |
| 11 | SUNY Brockport | not published | $60,623 | not published | 34 |
| 12 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus cost & debt at this university → | $57,367 | $59,485 | $67,975 | 40 |
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 bachelor's major in this dataset reports $37,705, so Healthcare Administration sits above the middle by $1,304.
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 Health and Medical Administrative Services (CIP 5107). 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.