What Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions Graduates Earn

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

Start with the shape of the table: Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions pays $40,244 at the first measured horizon and $55,054 at the last, and those two medians rest on 2,861 and 3,297 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.

The trajectory is the story here: $40,244 at year one, $51,502 at year four, $55,054 at year five. That is 37% growth across the window Scorecard measures, worth $14,810 a year by the fifth year. Fields with flat early curves repay debt slowly; this one's curve works in the borrower’s favor.

Scorecard separates the first-year figure by Pell history for this field: $40,017 for graduates who received Pell, $41,071 for those who did not. The $1,054 difference tracks institutional mix and starting networks far more than it tracks the credential itself, and it is printed here because a Pell student comparing programs deserves the unblended number.

Inside its own CIP family, Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions ranks 13 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Health and Medical Administrative Services at $55,612, above this field's $55,054. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions stands number 140 by five-year earnings and number 135 by first-year earnings, and number 169 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 29 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $26,286 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 39 programs reporting debt. That is 65% of the first-year median earnings, or about 7.8 months of gross pay at $40,244 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $299 a month and interest adds $9,563 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

One field, many markets: the five-year median for Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions is $55,054 nationally, yet the strongest programs below run far ahead of it. The ranking keeps a 30-graduate floor under every entry, and University of Pennsylvania heads the list at $100,528.

High program medians concentrate in high-wage metros and selective intakes, so read $100,528 as a market fact before reading it as a quality verdict. Costs for the same programs are checkable in the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 18.3% of the 3,297 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 $100,528 sits 83% above the national field median of $55,054. Its median debt, $13,021, runs below the field median of $26,286, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.