What Health and Medical Administrative Services Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

For Health and Medical Administrative Services, the federal file supports exactly three earnings snapshots, and this page prints all of them: $51,349 one year after graduation, $54,365 at four years, $55,612 at five. The weighting note matters: medians here count graduates, not programs, across 39,244 people in the five-year pool, which is why they can sit above or below the unweighted middle program shown in the next column.

Earnings in this field climb $4,263 between the first and fifth year, a 8% rise that trails the all-fields pattern (the median field in this dataset pays $45,010 at year one and $65,763 at year five). Early-career growth this shape usually means the first job is a foothold: licensure, a portfolio, or a first promotion does the heavy lifting.

One more cut of the year-one data: Pell recipients in Health and Medical Administrative Services post a median of $50,088, non-recipients $57,791. That $7,703 gap is the distance between two different student populations studying under one field name, and it narrows or widens by institution, which the program table below hints at.

Inside its own CIP family, Health and Medical Administrative Services ranks 12 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions at $55,054, below this field's $55,612. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Health and Medical Administrative Services stands number 136 by five-year earnings and number 71 by first-year earnings, and number 176 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 40 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $30,140 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 239 programs reporting debt. That is 59% of the first-year median earnings, or about 7.0 months of gross pay at $51,349 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $343 a month and interest adds $10,965 over the life of the loan. Price your own borrowing with the student loan payoff calculator, and test the whole degree in the college ROI calculator or the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

Program medians scatter widely around the national $55,612 five-year figure. The table ranks the reporting programs by their five-year median, keeping only programs with at least 30 graduates in that count so a tiny cohort cannot top the list by luck. Ottawa University-Ottawa leads it at $98,653.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of Ottawa University-Ottawa's counted graduates earn less than $98,653. Weigh any program here against its own price using the net price estimator and the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 0.4% of the 39,244 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $98,653 sits 77% above the national field median of $55,612. Its median debt, $22,170, runs below the field median of $30,140, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.