Tecknet
Vad hände med de som slutade?
Varje lönetal på denna sida beskriver människor som arbetar. Denna sida beskriver de som inte är det. Fyra år efter avslutad en amerikansk examen, en del av varje examen kohort har inga inkomster på rekord någonstans - ingen lön, ingen egenföretagande inkomst. Den federala regeringen mäter det och publicerar det en högskola i taget. Läs över program, det är det närmaste det finns till en felprocent för en kvalifikation.
15.4%
Den sämsta siffran som publiceras här, om programmet: Cosmetology and personal grooming, undergraduate certificate or diploma.
1.0%
Den bästa prissumma som publiceras här: Rehabilitation and therapy, doctoral degree.
53,488
Folk i alla program nedan som avslutade, slutade studera, och hade ingen registrerad lön fyra år senare. Kohorterna här totalt 1,015,000.
på inte arbetar är inte samma som på oegenföretagare, och skillnaden är inte en teknikalitet
Åtgärden är avsaknaden av någon inkomst rekord för hela året - ingen lön på en W-2, ingen positiv egenföretagande inkomst på en skattedeklaration. Ingen i dessa uppgifter frågades om de ville ha ett arbete. Så räkningen innehåller människor som valde att inte arbeta: uppfostra barn, sköta en släkting, resa, studera något som inte är en examen, leva på en partners inkomst, eller flytta utomlands. Den innehåller också alla som ville arbeta och inte kunde få det. De två är inte separerade någonstans, av någon, och vi kommer inte att gissa på uppdelningen. Vad siffran fastställer är hur många människor avslutade en kvalifikation och, fyra år senare, tjänade ingenting av det eller något annat - vilket är frågan medianlönen siffran är tyst om.
Vem räknas och vem är inte
Bara folk som tog federalt studiestöd. Kohorten är byggd från det federala studentlånet och stipendiesystemet, så fulländare som betalade sin egen väg är frånvarande. Det är ungefär hälften av amerikanska grundexamen. Oavsett om den saknade hälften gör bättre eller sämre publiceras inte, och det är det enskilt största vi inte vet om dessa siffror.
Folk som fortfarande studerar är inte i någon kolumn. En som avslutade en ungkarl och gick direkt in i en masters är utesluten från både arbete och arbete, vilket är rätt: de har inte misslyckats med att hitta arbete, de har inte tittat. Det betyder också att andelen är en andel av de människor som faktiskt lämnade utbildningen, inte en andel av alla som tog examen.
Den federala programkoden är grövre än ett jobb. Programmen publiceras på fyrasiffrig granularitet och ingen finare. Radiografi, andningsterapi och kirurgisk teknik delar en kod; sjukgymnastik delar en annan med arbetsterapi. Rader som täcker mer än en sysselsättning markeras nedan och detaljerna sitter under varje. Där en rad delas, är siffran om koden, inte om något enda jobb inuti den.
Små program undertrycks vid källan, och vi fyller inte luckan. Avdelningen undanhåller för institutioner med kohorter för små för att publicera säkert, och lägger till statistik buller till dem som den publicerar. Så varje rad här är en summa över institutionerna tillräckligt stor för att rapportera. Täckning kolumnen visar vilken andel av institutionens egna nationella total som summan återhämtar sig; ingenting visas nedan 75.0%, och ingenting visas med en kohort under 1,000.
Och de små program vi kan se har inte något resultat. Varje nivå under den har beräknats på nytt med de minsta rapporteringsprogrammen – kohorter under 30 — bort. Över varje rad på denna sida var den största rörelsen 0.6 Procentenheter. Det är den kontroll folk vanligtvis ber om och det kommer tillbaka ren, så siffrorna är inte en artefakt av små kohorter.
Varje program vi kan publicera, värst först
Sorteras efter aktien som slutade med att ingen vinst. Den sorteras avsiktligt inte efter lön — lönekolumnen är här så att du kan se vad de som hittade arbete tjänar, och det bestämmer aldrig beställningen.
| Program för | Inte arbetar, inte inskriven | Kohort | Medielön för dem som arbetar | Median federal skuld vid slutförandet | Täckning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cosmetology and personal grooming, undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 12.04 is cosmetology together with barbering, nail technology, esthetics and related grooming programmes. They lead to different state licences and somewhat different pay, and the Department publishes no split. What they have in common is the thing this row shows: they are the largest sub-degree programme in the country by completions, and they have the worst four-year outcome of any programme on this page. |
15.4% 16,760 |
109,085 | $26,307 $13,783–$41,270 |
$8,252 | 81.8% 788 |
|
Health and medical administration, associate's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.07 covers medical billing and coding, health information technology, medical office administration and, at graduate level, health services administration. The sub-degree end of this code is one of the most heavily marketed training products in the country, and its four-year outcome is among the worst on this page — but it is also the code where the Department suppresses the most, so the certificate row does not clear our coverage floor and is not published here at all. |
14.1% 3,114 |
22,121 | $37,073 $23,345–$49,261 |
$19,042 | 81.0% 213 |
|
Vehicle maintenance and repair, undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 47.06 is vehicle maintenance and repair: automotive technology, diesel and heavy equipment, collision repair, motorcycle and marine, and aircraft powerplant and airframe technology. Aviation maintenance leads to an FAA certificate and pays materially more than automotive work, and the Department publishes no split, so this figure is a blend and cannot be read as either. |
9.7% 3,242 |
33,263 | $51,586 $33,822–$71,553 |
$9,500 | 89.0% 263 |
|
Dental support (hygiene and assisting), undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.06 holds dental hygiene and dental assisting together, and the two are not comparable: dental hygiene is a licensed associate-degree role that pays around the associate figure here, dental assisting is a short certificate that pays far less. The credential level separates them better than the code does — the certificate row is mostly assisting, the associate and bachelor's rows mostly hygiene — but neither split is published, so neither is certain. |
9.4% 1,703 |
18,040 | $33,673 $21,167–$43,924 |
$9,201 | 75.3% 190 |
|
Ground transportation (truck and bus driving), undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 49.02 is ground transportation: truck and bus driving, and also flagging and traffic control. Most completions are truck driving. One caveat matters more here than anywhere else on this page — this covers only the driving schools that take federal student aid, and most CDL training is paid in cash or funded by a carrier and never appears in federal data at all. |
8.4% 834 |
9,948 | $52,118 $28,154–$74,052 |
$6,333 | 80.4% 74 |
|
Allied health and medical assisting, associate's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.08 covers medical assisting, pharmacy technician, medical transcription, phlebotomy, veterinary technology and several other support roles in one code. They pay very differently and the Department publishes no split. |
8.1% 2,159 |
26,631 | $42,269 $28,587–$56,048 |
$14,062 | 79.4% 376 |
|
Chiropractic, first professional degree
CIP 51.01 is chiropractic and nothing else — no other programme is filed under it, so unlike most codes here the figure is about one qualification and one profession. |
7.5% 235 |
3,126 | $61,163 $33,422–$89,313 |
$193,488 | 100.0% 10 |
|
Health and medical administration, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.07 covers medical billing and coding, health information technology, medical office administration and, at graduate level, health services administration. The sub-degree end of this code is one of the most heavily marketed training products in the country, and its four-year outcome is among the worst on this page — but it is also the code where the Department suppresses the most, so the certificate row does not clear our coverage floor and is not published here at all. |
7.4% 1,488 |
20,230 | $58,716 $41,903–$80,437 |
$25,325 | 87.9% 204 |
|
Dietetics and clinical nutrition, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.31 is dietetics and clinical nutrition. The bachelor's degree no longer reaches the registered dietitian credential on its own — since 2024 the Commission on Dietetic Registration has required a master's — so this row covers a qualification that is now a step rather than a destination, which is part of why its four-year outcome is worse than the graduate rows in health. |
7.1% 226 |
3,178 | $55,753 $40,535–$68,442 |
$22,375 | 83.3% 67 |
|
Allied health diagnostic and treatment, undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were. |
6.1% 870 |
14,190 | $57,584 $37,331–$79,965 |
$9,500 | 76.4% 256 |
|
Vehicle maintenance and repair, associate's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 47.06 is vehicle maintenance and repair: automotive technology, diesel and heavy equipment, collision repair, motorcycle and marine, and aircraft powerplant and airframe technology. Aviation maintenance leads to an FAA certificate and pays materially more than automotive work, and the Department publishes no split, so this figure is a blend and cannot be read as either. |
5.8% 707 |
12,247 | $58,424 $40,794–$77,509 |
$12,000 | 75.1% 152 |
|
Air transportation, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 49.01 is air transportation: professional pilot programmes together with aviation management, air traffic control and flight operations. The bachelor's row is mostly professional pilot and aviation management, and the Department publishes no split between them. |
5.0% 229 |
4,552 | $85,825 $61,701–$118,209 |
$22,067 | 93.0% 46 |
|
Law (research doctorate), doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 22.01 at doctoral level is the research doctorate in law and a small number of professional programmes the Department classes at this level rather than as first professional. It is not the ordinary route to practising law, which is the first-professional JD row. |
4.7% 266 |
5,651 | $105,518 $75,697–$161,837 |
$113,386 | 96.4% 25 |
|
Law (JD), first professional degree
CIP 22.01 at first-professional level is the Juris Doctor. The figure is about law graduates, not admitted lawyers: it counts everyone who finished the degree, including those who never sat or never passed a bar examination. That is the right population for the question "was law school worth it" and the wrong one for "how many lawyers are out of work". |
4.6% 1,860 |
40,840 | $107,773 $75,568–$176,111 |
$106,239 | 97.0% 163 |
|
Architecture, bachelor's degree
CIP 04.02 is architecture proper — the accredited professional degree route. It excludes interior architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, which have their own codes. It is one of the cleaner codes on this page. Note that the degree is only the first of the three requirements for a licence: the experience hours and the six-division examination come after, and NCARB reports the average path from start to licence at 12.3 years. |
4.6% 203 |
4,438 | $66,914 $54,236–$78,634 |
$26,442 | 94.0% 79 |
|
Social work, bachelor's degree
CIP 44.07 is social work, and the master's row is the MSW — the degree that leads to clinical licensure in every state. It is one of the larger and cleaner codes here. It does not include counselling or psychology, which have their own codes. |
4.5% 1,259 |
28,250 | $51,790 $39,212–$64,160 |
$23,611 | 93.1% 407 |
|
Architecture, master's degree
CIP 04.02 is architecture proper — the accredited professional degree route. It excludes interior architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, which have their own codes. It is one of the cleaner codes on this page. Note that the degree is only the first of the three requirements for a licence: the experience hours and the six-division examination come after, and NCARB reports the average path from start to licence at 12.3 years. |
4.5% 96 |
2,118 | $74,139 $62,872–$86,117 |
$31,166 | 84.4% 50 |
|
Practical nursing and nursing assistant training, undergraduate certificate or diploma
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.39 puts practical and vocational nursing — the LPN/LVN route — in the same code as nursing-assistant and orderly training, and at certificate level the two cannot be separated. Those are very different qualifications: one is a licensed clinical role reached after about a year, the other is a few weeks of training for work that pays far less. This figure is both of them together, and the mix is not published, so it may not be read as the LPN figure. |
4.3% 2,047 |
47,882 | $56,073 $37,200–$76,301 |
$10,605 | 84.2% 643 |
|
Public health, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.22 is public health: epidemiology, health education, environmental health and health policy, plus the MPH. It leads to no single occupation and no licence, which is unusual on this page and worth weighing — the qualification is real, but nothing legally requires it for any specific job. |
4.3% 602 |
14,095 | $58,808 $41,981–$79,154 |
$22,500 | 86.6% 163 |
|
Health and medical administration, master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.07 covers medical billing and coding, health information technology, medical office administration and, at graduate level, health services administration. The sub-degree end of this code is one of the most heavily marketed training products in the country, and its four-year outcome is among the worst on this page — but it is also the code where the Department suppresses the most, so the certificate row does not clear our coverage floor and is not published here at all. |
4.3% 595 |
13,970 | $89,981 $62,852–$126,886 |
$40,243 | 86.6% 165 |
|
Dental support (hygiene and assisting), associate's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.06 holds dental hygiene and dental assisting together, and the two are not comparable: dental hygiene is a licensed associate-degree role that pays around the associate figure here, dental assisting is a short certificate that pays far less. The credential level separates them better than the code does — the certificate row is mostly assisting, the associate and bachelor's rows mostly hygiene — but neither split is published, so neither is certain. |
4.2% 353 |
8,378 | $61,982 $42,175–$79,205 |
$15,375 | 83.7% 205 |
|
Allied health diagnostic and treatment, associate's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were. |
4.1% 1,226 |
29,788 | $65,389 $46,431–$84,999 |
$14,653 | 84.6% 487 |
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Public health, master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.22 is public health: epidemiology, health education, environmental health and health policy, plus the MPH. It leads to no single occupation and no licence, which is unusual on this page and worth weighing — the qualification is real, but nothing legally requires it for any specific job. |
4.1% 563 |
13,669 | $82,751 $61,518–$113,501 |
$41,000 | 87.0% 172 |
|
Communication disorders (speech and hearing), bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.02 covers speech-language pathology and audiology together. At master's level it is overwhelmingly speech-language pathology, because audiology moved to a clinical doctorate; at bachelor's level it is a pre-professional degree that qualifies you for neither on its own, which is worth knowing before enrolling. |
3.5% 390 |
11,012 | $58,928 $44,993–$73,005 |
$20,500 | 94.4% 203 |
|
Social work, master's degree
CIP 44.07 is social work, and the master's row is the MSW — the degree that leads to clinical licensure in every state. It is one of the larger and cleaner codes here. It does not include counselling or psychology, which have their own codes. |
3.4% 1,503 |
44,604 | $65,123 $51,662–$79,737 |
$37,736 | 96.9% 248 |
|
Rehabilitation and therapy, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.23 covers physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, art and music therapy and rehabilitation counselling together. The doctoral row is mostly the Doctor of Physical Therapy alongside occupational therapy doctorates; the master's row is mostly occupational therapy and counselling. Physical therapy alone cannot be extracted from any of them, so none of these is the physical therapy figure. |
3.3% 137 |
4,167 | $55,792 $40,044–$73,848 |
$25,000 | 80.5% 71 |
|
Dentistry (advanced and specialty), doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.04 at doctoral level is a small group of programmes the Department classes as doctoral rather than first professional, including advanced and specialty dental training. The ordinary route to practising dentistry is the first-professional row. |
3.2% 35 |
1,089 | $166,240 $98,293–$241,274 |
$373,155 | 95.0% 5 |
|
Pharmacy, doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.20 is pharmacy together with pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy administration. The first-professional row is the PharmD, the route to licensure; the doctoral row is largely research doctorates in pharmaceutical science, which lead to laboratory and industry work rather than a pharmacy counter. |
3.1% 181 |
5,819 | $136,696 $117,606–$156,076 |
$181,778 | 91.5% 36 |
|
Registered nursing, associate's degree
CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay. |
3.0% 2,548 |
86,299 | $80,813 $61,109–$103,839 |
$14,910 | 95.0% 862 |
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Pharmacy, first professional degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.20 is pharmacy together with pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy administration. The first-professional row is the PharmD, the route to licensure; the doctoral row is largely research doctorates in pharmaceutical science, which lead to laboratory and industry work rather than a pharmacy counter. |
2.9% 438 |
14,903 | $138,348 $120,409–$158,074 |
$141,047 | 93.0% 80 |
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Allied health diagnostic and treatment, bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were. |
2.8% 320 |
11,503 | $70,786 $50,919–$95,942 |
$25,090 | 79.8% 226 |
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Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree
CIP 51.04 at first-professional level is the DDS and DMD. It does not include dental hygiene or dental assisting, which are CIP 51.06 and appear separately. Specialty residencies taken after the degree are also outside it. |
2.7% 210 |
7,918 | $170,812 $110,187–$239,976 |
$257,402 | 98.6% 53 |
|
Dental support (hygiene and assisting), bachelor's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.06 holds dental hygiene and dental assisting together, and the two are not comparable: dental hygiene is a licensed associate-degree role that pays around the associate figure here, dental assisting is a short certificate that pays far less. The credential level separates them better than the code does — the certificate row is mostly assisting, the associate and bachelor's rows mostly hygiene — but neither split is published, so neither is certain. |
2.6% 82 |
3,202 | $68,061 $51,213–$83,379 |
$20,000 | 91.3% 69 |
|
Registered nursing, bachelor's degree
CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay. |
2.5% 4,421 |
177,214 | $88,910 $67,853–$114,470 |
$22,310 | 97.1% 825 |
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Rehabilitation and therapy, master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.23 covers physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, art and music therapy and rehabilitation counselling together. The doctoral row is mostly the Doctor of Physical Therapy alongside occupational therapy doctorates; the master's row is mostly occupational therapy and counselling. Physical therapy alone cannot be extracted from any of them, so none of these is the physical therapy figure. |
2.5% 302 |
11,993 | $71,416 $53,551–$86,212 |
$56,717 | 88.6% 187 |
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Optometry, first professional degree
CIP 51.17 at first-professional level is the Doctor of Optometry. It is a small and well-defined code: sixteen institution groups report, and they cover 86% of the Department's national count. |
2.4% 42 |
1,740 | $131,525 $100,524–$158,455 |
$172,132 | 86.1% 16 |
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Communication disorders (speech and hearing), master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.02 covers speech-language pathology and audiology together. At master's level it is overwhelmingly speech-language pathology, because audiology moved to a clinical doctorate; at bachelor's level it is a pre-professional degree that qualifies you for neither on its own, which is worth knowing before enrolling. |
2.2% 249 |
11,235 | $67,030 $53,057–$82,358 |
$41,000 | 93.2% 223 |
|
Nursing (advanced practice and administration), master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay. |
1.7% 1,064 |
62,282 | $120,193 $94,642–$149,472 |
$42,730 | 95.8% 391 |
|
Medicine (doctoral programmes), doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.12 at doctoral level is a mixture of programmes the Department classes as doctoral rather than first professional. The ordinary MD and DO route is the first-professional row, and the same residency caveat applies to both. |
1.5% 73 |
4,714 | $118,504 $77,695–$219,037 |
$216,633 | 76.6% 21 |
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Medicine (MD/DO), first professional degree
CIP 51.12 at first-professional level is the MD and DO. Read the earnings figure with the calendar in mind and it stops being surprising: four years after finishing medical school almost everyone in this cohort is a resident, and a resident's salary is not a doctor's salary. This row measures the bottom of the curve, not the plateau, and the Department publishes nothing further out. |
1.3% 423 |
31,703 | $112,460 $77,012–$214,525 |
$193,336 | 86.3% 128 |
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Rehabilitation and therapy, first professional degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.23 covers physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, art and music therapy and rehabilitation counselling together. The doctoral row is mostly the Doctor of Physical Therapy alongside occupational therapy doctorates; the master's row is mostly occupational therapy and counselling. Physical therapy alone cannot be extracted from any of them, so none of these is the physical therapy figure. |
1.3% 56 |
4,291 | $81,641 $67,036–$93,971 |
$102,124 | 80.9% 44 |
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Nursing (advanced practice and administration), first professional degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay. |
1.3% 18 |
1,387 | $133,099 $107,508–$174,772 |
$67,996 | 81.9% 22 |
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Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were. |
1.2% 166 |
13,462 | $127,347 $103,242–$152,756 |
$109,092 | 83.6% 161 |
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Nursing (advanced practice and administration), doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay. |
1.1% 74 |
7,033 | $138,131 $106,294–$185,434 |
$69,145 | 81.3% 113 |
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Rehabilitation and therapy, doctoral degree
Den gemensamma koden omfattar mer än en verksamhet. CIP 51.23 covers physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, art and music therapy and rehabilitation counselling together. The doctoral row is mostly the Doctor of Physical Therapy alongside occupational therapy doctorates; the master's row is mostly occupational therapy and counselling. Physical therapy alone cannot be extracted from any of them, so none of these is the physical therapy figure. |
1.0% 119 |
11,740 | $82,893 $68,836–$95,078 |
$87,112 | 89.0% 150 |
Källa: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, release av 10 Juni 2026. Lönen mäts fyra år efter avslutad och är nationella siffror som publiceras av institutionen; den icke-arbetsvärde är vår egen summa av den institution-nivå som de publicerar. Täckning är den summan som en andel av institutionens egna nationella arbetstagare räknas för samma program och nivå, med antalet rapporterande institution grupper under den. · Visa
Hur man läser de två kolumnerna
Lönekolumnen är en överlevandes siffra, och det är poängen. Det är medianen för de människor i samma kohort som arbetade – de i den andra kolumnen finns inte i den. Varje median på varje löneplats är byggd på det sättet; nästan ingen av dem visar dig kolumnen bredvid den. Läsa de två tillsammans är det enda sättet lönen siffran betyder något: en hög median bredvid en hög icke-arbetsfrekvens är ett program där de människor som gör det gör bra och en meningsfull andel inte gör det.
Skuldkolumnen är ett golv, inte ett pris. Det är medianen federala låneskulden som förs när slutförandet — vad människor faktiskt lånat från regeringen. Det utesluter bidrag, sparande, familjepengar, privata lån och levnadskostnader, så den verkliga kostnaden för varje program här är högre än antalet visas, av ett belopp som ingen publicerar. Det är också en median för alla institutioner som rapporterar en, vilket inte är samma som en median för alla studenter.
Fyra år är för tidigt för några av dessa och sent för ingen. För ett intyg, fyra år ut är en fast karriär. För medicin är det mitt i en residens, vilket är varför medicinska rader visar inkomster långt under vad dessa läkare kommer att göra till slut — siffran är verklig, det är helt enkelt att mäta botten av kurvan. Institutionen publicerar inget längre ut, så inte heller vi.
Inget av detta säger att ett program är dåligt. En kvalifikation kan krävas enligt lag, eller den enda vägen till arbete du hellre skulle göra, och fortfarande visar en dålig fyra-års utfall. Vad kolumnen gör är att stoppa lönesumman läsas som ett löfte.
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