Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Health Services degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $31,818 two years after finishing, more than 28% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 466 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

D

The verdict on the money

Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.

Median earnings $31,818 2 years after finishing · per graduate
Typical range $28,598–$36,141 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree — vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 19,233 466 programmes

Where a Health Services degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Carroll University $65,660 $74,576 $76,900 16
2 West Chester University of Pennsylvania cost & debt at this university → $52,978 $57,589 $65,537 66
3 Rutgers University-New Brunswick $33,500 $57,318 $61,902 37
4 Rutgers University-Camden $33,500 $57,318 $61,902 121
5 Northern Kentucky University cost & debt at this university → $51,743 $54,653 $57,267 78
6 Nova Southeastern University cost & debt at this university → $48,954 $54,322 $60,027 8
7 Southern New Hampshire University cost & debt at this university → $57,436 $50,856 not published 304
8 Mercy College of Ohio $59,808 $50,439 $51,952 45
9 University of Minnesota-Rochester $41,065 $49,270 $62,760 159
10 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $41,065 $49,270 $62,760 46
11 United States University not published $48,823 $47,645 1
12 Northwestern State University of Louisiana $57,708 $45,529 not published 12

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $31,818 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $31,594 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 bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Health Services sits below the middle by $4,679.

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.

Health Services at other levels

Master's — $46,966 (D)

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Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Liberal Arts and Sciences — $31,830 Mental and Social Health Services — $31,854 International & Globalization Studies — $32,004 Allied Health — $32,162 Social Work — $32,249 Biological and Physical Sciences — $32,391

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Health Services: the questions people ask

How much do Health Services graduates earn?
The median bachelor's graduate earns $31,818 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 118 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $31,369.
Is a Health Services degree worth it?
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
What is the salary range for Health Services?
Half of US programmes report medians between $28,598 and $36,141. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Health Services each year?
About 19,233 students complete a bachelor's in this field each year across 466 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (CIP 5100). 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.