What Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other Graduates Earn

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

Start with the shape of the table: Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other pays $42,610 at the first measured horizon and $67,607 at the last, and those two medians rest on 2,526 and 5,313 graduates counted respectively. The headline figures weight each reporting program by its graduates counted, so the 400-graduate program moves the national number more than the 12-graduate one; the unweighted column beside it shows the middle program, plain and simple.

From $42,610 in the first year to $67,607 in the fifth, earnings grow 59% ($24,997). For scale, the median bachelor's field in the Scorecard file grows from $45,010 to $65,763 over the same span, so this field's early-career slope is steeper than typical.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other are $41,169 (received Pell) and $44,882 (did not), $3,713 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 Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other ranks 6 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Health/Medical Preparatory Programs at $65,388, below this field's $67,607. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other stands number 84 by five-year earnings and number 119 by first-year earnings, and number 143 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 59 places.

The debt side of the same degree

What does the median Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other graduate owe? $23,226, the graduate-weighted median over 51 programs with published debt figures. The ratio that matters is debt to first-year earnings: 55%, or 6.5 months of gross pay at the $42,610 median. At the 2026-27 undergraduate loan rate of 6.52%, the standard decade of repayment is $264 a month with $8,450 of interest on top. Model a different balance in the student loan payoff calculator before you borrow it, and sanity-check the degree in the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other, individual programs post five-year medians far from $67,607 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; King's College sits first at $133,970.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of King's College's counted graduates earn less than $133,970. 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 8.5% of the 5,313 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 $133,970 sits 98% above the national field median of $67,607. Its median debt, $27,000, runs above the field median of $23,226, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.