What Health/Medical Preparatory Programs Graduates Earn

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

For Health/Medical Preparatory Programs, the federal file supports exactly three earnings snapshots, and this page prints all of them: $39,127 one year after graduation, $55,778 at four years, $65,388 at five. The weighting note matters: medians here count graduates, not programs, across 3,485 people in the five-year pool, which is why they can sit above or below the unweighted middle program shown in the next column.

The trajectory is the story here: $39,127 at year one, $55,778 at year four, $65,388 at year five. That is 67% growth across the window Scorecard measures, worth $26,261 a year by the fifth year. Fields with flat early curves repay debt slowly; this one's curve works in the borrower’s favor.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Health/Medical Preparatory Programs are $40,917 (received Pell) and $34,719 (did not), $6,198 apart. The split is a reminder that a field median averages over very different starting points; the institution a student picks inside the field moves their personal figure more than the field label does.

Inside its own CIP family, Health/Medical Preparatory Programs ranks 7 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General at $64,868, below this field's $65,388. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Health/Medical Preparatory Programs stands number 94 by five-year earnings and number 142 by first-year earnings, and number 95 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 1 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 43 programs that report debt for Health/Medical Preparatory Programs, the median graduate owes $20,750. Set beside the $39,127 year-one median, the debt is 53% of first-year gross earnings, about 6.4 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $236 monthly and $7,549 in interest. The student loan payoff calculator replays that schedule with your numbers, and the college ROI calculator weighs the full cost against the earnings table above.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Health/Medical Preparatory Programs, individual programs post five-year medians far from $65,388 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences sits first at $111,429.

A program median describes that program's own graduates in that program's own labor market; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at $111,429 is evidence about a place and a mix of students, not a wage offer. Put the same programs' prices next to these figures with the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator before ranking anything.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 15.2% of the 3,485 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 $111,429 sits 70% above the national field median of $65,388. Its median debt, $27,000, runs above the field median of $20,750, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.