Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Clinical Laboratory Science (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Science earn a median of $75,975 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $60,921 and $92,270. We rank the 51 U.S. colleges whose Clinical Laboratory Science programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,865 graduates in all. That puts Clinical Laboratory Science at #34 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
CUNY York College, in New York, leads at $122,313, 60% above the median ranked school ($76,220). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $70,081 and $82,683, and the lowest earns $55,038, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 27 of the 51 ranked schools (53%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 18 public, 2 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 96% are public. New York places 5 schools in the top 20, ahead of California (2).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $18,292 a year, against $14,764 across all 51 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $20,426 in federal loans, about 24% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 1.6 years.
Showing the top 50 of 51 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | CUNY York College Jamaica, NY Public · 4-year | $122,313 | 36 † | — | $4,456 | 0.2 |
| 2 | Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Public · 4-year | $110,827 | 42 | $17,500 | $18,784 | 1.0 |
| 3 | California State University-Dominguez Hills Carson, CA Public · 4-year | $109,642 | 58 | $19,579 | $8,615 | 0.5 |
| 4 | CUNY Hunter College New York, NY Public · 4-year | $104,791 | 43 | — | $2,984 | 0.2 |
| 5 | Farmingdale State College Farmingdale, NY Public · 4-year | $104,169 | 36 † | $19,977 | $10,867 | 0.6 |
| 6 | Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, OR Public · 4-year | $89,839 | 66 | $20,875 | $15,706 | 1.2 |
| 7 | University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY Public · 4-year | $89,223 | 33 † | $16,250 | $20,995 | 1.6 |
| 8 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public · 4-year | $86,417 | 29 † | $13,000 | $14,091 | 1.2 |
| 9 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lowell, MA Public · 4-year | $86,040 | 40 | $26,393 | $17,163 | 1.5 |
| 10 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public · 4-year | $84,678 | 50 | $19,854 | $16,778 | 1.4 |
| 11 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public · 4-year | $84,376 | 54 | $15,334 | $24,406 | 2.1 |
| 12 | University of Delaware Newark, DE Public · 4-year | $84,376 | 30 † | $25,908 | $17,799 | 1.5 |
| 13 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA Public · 4-year | $84,323 | 42 | $27,179 | $20,927 | 1.9 |
| 14 | Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX Public · 4-year | $81,042 | 38 † | $16,473 | $20,783 | 1.8 |
| 15 | University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI Public · 4-year | $80,478 | 34 † | $25,000 | $21,440 | 2.1 |
| 16 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA Public · 4-year | $80,344 | 62 | $19,849 | $23,433 | 2.1 |
| 17 | National University San Diego, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,900 | 35 † | $27,906 | $22,878 | 2.1 |
| 18 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH Public · 4-year | $79,742 | 250 | $25,443 | $25,648 | 2.3 |
| 19 | Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,175 | 245 | $23,271 | $22,472 | 2.1 |
| 20 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT Public · 4-year | $78,989 | 28 † | $21,088 | $16,200 | 1.6 |
| 21 | University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND Public · 4-year | $78,774 | 48 | $24,283 | $18,551 | 1.8 |
| 22 | Saint Cloud State University Saint Cloud, MN Public · 4-year | $78,067 | 58 | $19,347 | $13,529 | 1.3 |
| 23 | University of Kentucky Lexington, KY Public · 4-year | $77,663 | 38 † | $15,688 | $18,851 | 1.8 |
| 24 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $77,486 | 132 | $20,832 | $10,258 | 1.1 |
| 25 | Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL Public · 4-year | $76,856 | 38 † | $18,000 | $13,391 | 1.3 |
| 26 | Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Public · 4-year | $76,220 | 28 † | $16,348 | $11,668 | 1.2 |
| 27 | West Virginia University Morgantown, WV Public · 4-year | $76,034 | 36 † | $24,573 | $15,634 | 1.5 |
| 28 | Marshall University Huntington, WV Public · 4-year | $75,952 | 28 † | — | $7,502 | 0.7 |
| 29 | Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN Public · 4-year | $75,261 | 96 | $12,500 | $9,735 | 1.0 |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse La Crosse, WI Public · 4-year | $73,439 | 32 † | $19,500 | $16,210 | 1.8 |
| 31 | South Dakota State University Brookings, SD Public · 4-year | $73,360 | 36 † | $26,500 | $19,841 | 2.2 |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Public · 4-year | $73,346 | 145 | $26,835 | $15,014 | 1.7 |
| 33 | Illinois State University Normal, IL Public · 4-year | $73,220 | 39 † | $23,927 | $19,398 | 2.1 |
| 34 | Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA Public · 4-year | $72,156 | 28 † | $15,183 | $15,267 | 1.6 |
| 35 | Idaho State University Pocatello, ID Public · 4-year | $71,038 | 56 | $12,500 | $12,193 | 1.4 |
| 36 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public · 4-year | $70,940 | 72 | $26,000 | $19,680 | 2.2 |
| 37 | Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI Public · 4-year | $70,486 | 34 † | $26,239 | $9,120 | 1.0 |
| 38 | Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem, NC Public · 4-year | $70,450 | 47 | $20,778 | $13,479 | 1.5 |
| 39 | Wichita State University Wichita, KS Public · 4-year | $69,711 | 36 † | $14,250 | $13,194 | 1.5 |
| 40 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI Public · 4-year | $69,388 | 29 † | $25,000 | $14,182 | 1.6 |
| 41 | Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA Public · 4-year | $68,943 | 25 † | $23,343 | $14,638 | 1.8 |
| 42 | Texas State University San Marcos, TX Public · 4-year | $68,940 | 26 † | $22,000 | $16,805 | 2.0 |
| 43 | Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI Public · 4-year | $67,522 | 66 | $27,364 | $14,085 | 1.7 |
| 44 | The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX Public · 4-year | $66,491 | 36 † | $21,000 | $9,403 | 1.2 |
| 45 | University of West Florida Pensacola, FL Public · 4-year | $65,285 | 26 † | $17,250 | $9,364 | 1.2 |
| 46 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI Public · 4-year | $64,792 | 47 | $27,500 | $14,559 | 2.1 |
| 47 | Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI Public · 4-year | $64,703 | 42 | $26,581 | $8,624 | 1.2 |
| 48 | Auburn University at Montgomery Montgomery, AL Public · 4-year | $63,596 | 28 † | $25,000 | $13,224 | 1.7 |
| 49 | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, TX Public · 4-year | $63,426 | 31 † | $14,469 | $4,831 | 0.7 |
| 50 | University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe, LA Public · 4-year | $63,390 | 26 † | $12,555 | $13,466 | 1.9 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Clinical Laboratory Science (CIP 5110, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 51.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Clinical Laboratory Science earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | $104,791 | 5 | CUNY York College |
| Wisconsin | $73,346 | 3 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse |
| Michigan | $69,388 | 5 | Michigan State University |
| Texas | $67,716 | 4 | Tarleton State University |
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