Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Dental Support Services (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Dental Support Services earn a median of $68,061 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $51,213 and $83,379. We rank the 47 U.S. colleges whose Dental Support Services programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,357 graduates in all. That puts Dental Support Services at #45 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
University of Southern California, in California, leads at $91,726, 35% above the median ranked school ($67,927). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $62,689 and $73,868, and the lowest earns $37,694, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 22 of the 47 ranked schools (47%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 13 public, 6 private nonprofit and 1 for-profit. The top 20 are spread across 13 states, with Minnesota the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $18,001 a year, against $15,300 across all 47 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $22,421 in federal loans, about 30% 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 2.1 years.
Showing the top 47 of 47 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $91,726 | 42 | $30,556 | $32,740 | 2.4 |
| 2 | West Coast University-Texas Richardson, TX For-profit · 4-year | $85,797 | 108 | $33,707 | $53,020 | 4.2 |
| 3 | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $83,253 | 100 | $25,000 | $39,545 | 3.7 |
| 4 | University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI Public · 4-year | $79,863 | 35 † | $29,690 | $15,664 | 1.5 |
| 5 | Pacific University Forest Grove, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,641 | 55 | $22,500 | $35,273 | 3.4 |
| 6 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA Public · 4-year | $78,231 | 30 † | $22,341 | $23,433 | 2.3 |
| 7 | Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, OR Public · 4-year | $78,089 | 74 | $20,750 | $15,706 | 1.5 |
| 8 | West Virginia University Morgantown, WV Public · 4-year | $76,662 | 31 † | $26,000 | $15,634 | 1.5 |
| 9 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public · 4-year | $76,078 | 39 † | $17,394 | $16,778 | 1.8 |
| 10 | Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA Public · 4-year | $75,533 | 56 | $23,604 | $13,886 | 1.6 |
| 11 | University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $74,822 | 57 | $25,121 | $27,807 | 3.0 |
| 12 | University of New England Biddeford, ME Private nonprofit · 4-year | $74,504 | 50 | $26,645 | $38,107 | 4.2 |
| 13 | University of New Haven West Haven, CT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $73,231 | 41 | $23,281 | $34,192 | 3.9 |
| 14 | Metropolitan State University Saint Paul, MN Public · 4-year | $73,027 | 33 † | $15,250 | $16,863 | 1.9 |
| 15 | Minnesota State University-Mankato Mankato, MN Public · 4-year | $72,882 | 72 | $21,355 | $19,139 | 2.2 |
| 16 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Public · 4-year | $72,567 | 41 | $11,000 | $11,655 | 1.2 |
| 17 | Clark College Vancouver, WA Public · 4-year | $72,300 | 45 | $19,837 | $11,465 | 1.4 |
| 18 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $70,132 | 42 | $15,000 | $21,315 | 2.4 |
| 19 | Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA Public · 4-year | $69,732 | 68 | $18,000 | $14,638 | 1.8 |
| 20 | Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ Public · 4-year | $68,917 | 72 | $20,567 | $14,158 | 1.7 |
| 21 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL Public · 4-year | $68,609 | 58 | $21,500 | $13,297 | 1.6 |
| 22 | University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD Public · 4-year | $68,556 | 51 | $26,000 | $19,858 | 2.5 |
| 23 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK Public · 4-year | $68,018 | 69 | $15,000 | $15,300 | 1.8 |
| 24 | University of Wyoming Laramie, WY Public · 4-year | $67,927 | 27 † | $7,500 | $13,599 | 1.9 |
| 25 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM Public · 4-year | $67,561 | 34 † | $20,000 | $15,489 | 1.8 |
| 26 | Indiana University-Northwest Gary, IN Public · 4-year | $67,468 | 30 † | $17,500 | $5,130 | 0.7 |
| 27 | Texas Woman's University Denton, TX Public · 4-year | $66,034 | 76 | $14,049 | $11,963 | 1.5 |
| 28 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | $65,920 | 50 | $20,000 | $17,339 | 2.3 |
| 29 | East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN Public · 4-year | $65,649 | 44 | $14,000 | $15,983 | 2.1 |
| 30 | Pennsylvania College of Technology Williamsport, PA Public · 4-year | $64,919 | 40 | $23,983 | $25,110 | 3.5 |
| 31 | University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO Public · 4-year | $64,838 | 46 | $18,750 | $13,310 | 1.8 |
| 32 | St Petersburg College St. Petersburg, FL Public · 4-year | $63,700 | 39 † | $17,428 | $1,471 | 0.2 |
| 33 | Clayton State University Morrow, GA Public · 4-year | $63,402 | 50 | $18,375 | $8,365 | 1.1 |
| 34 | University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $63,364 | 43 | $22,032 | $15,232 | 2.1 |
| 35 | Idaho State University Pocatello, ID Public · 4-year | $62,783 | 55 | $18,000 | $12,193 | 1.9 |
| 36 | University of Louisville Louisville, KY Public · 4-year | $62,595 | 40 | $23,000 | $17,988 | 2.6 |
| 37 | Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH Public · 4-year | $62,099 | 36 † | $24,905 | $12,767 | 2.0 |
| 38 | University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe, LA Public · 4-year | $62,089 | 40 | $15,000 | $13,466 | 1.9 |
| 39 | Wichita State University Wichita, KS Public · 4-year | $61,982 | 75 | $19,000 | $13,194 | 1.9 |
| 40 | West Liberty University West Liberty, WV Public · 4-year | $61,801 | 54 | $25,481 | $15,366 | 2.2 |
| 41 | Augusta University Augusta, GA Public · 4-year | $61,584 | 54 | $12,687 | $13,787 | 2.0 |
| 42 | Indiana University-South Bend South Bend, IN Public · 4-year | $61,436 | 25 † | $21,500 | $8,653 | 1.4 |
| 43 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public · 4-year | $60,778 | 25 † | — | $30,434 | 5.0 |
| 44 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public · 4-year | $59,402 | 65 | $17,875 | $13,138 | 2.1 |
| 45 | Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY Public · 4-year | $57,958 | 35 † | $21,000 | $10,990 | 2.0 |
| 46 | Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN Public · 4-year | $57,814 | 56 | $22,313 | $13,171 | 2.5 |
| 47 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $37,694 | 49 | $17,965 | $10,258 | — |
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 Dental Support Services (CIP 5106, 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 47.
- 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 Dental Support Services 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | $73,027 | 3 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Texas | $70,132 | 3 | West Coast University-Texas |
| Indiana | $61,436 | 3 | Indiana University-Northwest |
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