What Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General Graduates Earn

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

Start with the shape of the table: Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General pays $41,022 at the first measured horizon and $64,868 at the last, and those two medians rest on 14,399 and 14,194 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 $41,022 in the first year to $64,868 in the fifth, earnings grow 58% ($23,846). 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 Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General are $40,953 (received Pell) and $42,521 (did not), $1,568 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 Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General ranks 8 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, above this field's $64,868. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General stands number 95 by five-year earnings and number 130 by first-year earnings, and number 46 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 49 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 213 programs that report debt for Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General, the median graduate owes $19,500. Set beside the $41,022 year-one median, the debt is 48% of first-year gross earnings, about 5.7 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $222 monthly and $7,094 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

Program medians scatter widely around the national $64,868 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. Touro University leads it at $151,766.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of Touro University's counted graduates earn less than $151,766. 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 2.8% of the 14,194 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 $151,766 sits 134% above the national field median of $64,868. Its median debt, $12,500, runs below the field median of $19,500, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.