Associate degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions (Associate)
Graduates who complete a associate degree in Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions earn a median of $65,389 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $46,431 and $84,999. We rank the 244 U.S. colleges whose Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 15,464 graduates in all. That puts Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions at #3 of 27 associate degree fields we rank, among the best-paid fields.
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, in New York, leads at $143,956, 120% above the median ranked school ($65,488). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $60,264 and $73,729, and the lowest earns $33,996. 123 of the 244 ranked schools (50%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 17 public, 3 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 80% are public. New York places 7 schools in the top 20, ahead of California (3).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $8,436 a year, against $9,255 across all 244 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $14,223 in federal loans, about 15% 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 0.3 years.
Showing the top 50 of 244 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College New York, NY Public · 2-year | $143,956 | 46 | $11,000 | $4,976 | 0.1 |
| 2 | Mt San Antonio College Walnut, CA Public · 2-year | $102,200 | 67 | — | $6,490 | 0.2 |
| 3 | CUNY Bronx Community College Bronx, NY Public · 2-year | $100,751 | 58 | — | $4,462 | 0.1 |
| 4 | CUNY LaGuardia Community College Long Island City, NY Public · 2-year | $100,625 | 40 | — | $6,120 | 0.2 |
| 5 | Nassau Community College Garden City, NY Public · 2-year | $99,804 | 91 | $13,807 | $7,095 | 0.2 |
| 6 | Bellevue College Bellevue, WA Public · 4-year | $96,612 | 87 | $17,522 | $11,430 | 0.4 |
| 7 | CUNY New York City College of Technology Brooklyn, NY Public · 4-year | $95,808 | 75 | $9,852 | $5,127 | 0.2 |
| 8 | Prince George's Community College Largo, MD Public · 2-year | $95,612 | 46 | $10,500 | $8,672 | 0.3 |
| 9 | Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, VA Public · 2-year | $95,531 | 64 | $12,000 | $9,919 | 0.3 |
| 10 | Chemeketa Community College Salem, OR Public · 4-year | $93,590 | 29 † | $10,500 | $8,200 | 0.3 |
| 11 | CUNY Hostos Community College Bronx, NY Public · 2-year | $92,798 | 41 | $8,687 | $5,297 | 0.2 |
| 12 | Community College of Baltimore County Baltimore, MD Public · 2-year | $90,755 | 89 | $14,638 | $9,844 | 0.4 |
| 13 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public · 4-year | $90,232 | 27 † | — | $24,406 | 0.9 |
| 14 | Bergen Community College Paramus, NJ Public · 2-year | $89,694 | 86 | $16,000 | $10,345 | 0.4 |
| 15 | Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $89,449 | 38 † | $24,750 | $35,558 | 1.4 |
| 16 | Molloy University Rockville Centre, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $88,600 | 32 † | $22,625 | $24,347 | 0.9 |
| 17 | Holy Family University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $88,542 | 27 † | $18,745 | $13,143 | 0.5 |
| 18 | Butte College Oroville, CA Public · 2-year | $87,671 | 48 | — | $5,520 | 0.2 |
| 19 | Portland Community College Portland, OR Public · 2-year | $87,002 | 42 | $20,000 | $10,405 | 0.4 |
| 20 | Middlesex College Edison, NJ Public · 2-year | $86,511 | 32 † | — | $2,288 | 0.1 |
| 21 | North Shore Community College Danvers, MA Public · 2-year | $86,344 | 33 † | $16,250 | $9,000 | 0.4 |
| 22 | Weatherford College Weatherford, TX Public · 4-year | $86,018 | 60 | $11,000 | $9,967 | 0.4 |
| 23 | Hudson Valley Community College Troy, NY Public · 2-year | $85,166 | 108 | $13,209 | $8,501 | 0.3 |
| 24 | Community College of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Public · 2-year | $85,033 | 45 | $11,459 | $11,911 | 0.5 |
| 25 | Antelope Valley Community College District Lancaster, CA Public · 4-year | $84,908 | 27 † | — | $3,860 | 0.2 |
| 26 | Dallas College Dallas, TX Public · 4-year | $84,351 | 120 | $10,942 | $3,214 | 0.1 |
| 27 | Bunker Hill Community College Boston, MA Public · 2-year | $83,632 | 45 | $11,648 | $7,818 | 0.4 |
| 28 | Tarrant County College District Fort Worth, TX Public · 2-year | $83,608 | 42 | $14,683 | $4,337 | 0.2 |
| 29 | Quinsigamond Community College Worcester, MA Public · 2-year | $82,986 | 51 | $21,000 | $9,090 | 0.4 |
| 30 | Tacoma Community College Tacoma, WA Public · 4-year | $81,859 | 45 | $13,094 | $8,376 | 0.4 |
| 31 | Modesto Junior College Modesto, CA Public · 4-year | $81,214 | 25 † | — | $2,818 | 0.1 |
| 32 | County College of Morris Randolph, NJ Public · 2-year | $80,479 | 72 | $9,000 | $8,895 | 0.4 |
| 33 | Laramie County Community College Cheyenne, WY Public · 4-year | $80,212 | 34 † | $14,257 | $7,287 | 0.4 |
| 34 | Houston City College Houston, TX Public · 4-year | $80,188 | 92 | $17,487 | $5,737 | 0.3 |
| 35 | Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Public · 4-year | $79,821 | 48 | $19,500 | $11,668 | 0.5 |
| 36 | Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus Sewell, NJ Public · 2-year | $79,812 | 53 | $11,000 | $12,378 | 0.6 |
| 37 | Connecticut State Community College New Britain, CT Public · 2-year | $79,701 | 204 | — | $11,513 | 0.5 |
| 38 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL Public · 4-year | $79,580 | 44 | $17,063 | $13,297 | 0.6 |
| 39 | Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,048 | 29 † | $18,492 | $46,174 | 2.2 |
| 40 | Community College of Denver Denver, CO Public · 4-year | $78,927 | 33 † | $12,500 | $9,450 | 0.5 |
| 41 | Florida SouthWestern State College Fort Myers, FL Public · 4-year | $78,918 | 75 | $9,000 | $7,247 | 0.3 |
| 42 | Daytona State College Daytona Beach, FL Public · 4-year | $78,836 | 47 | $10,406 | $7,177 | 0.3 |
| 43 | Erie Community College Buffalo, NY Public · 2-year | $78,735 | 34 † | $13,000 | $7,765 | 0.4 |
| 44 | Lackawanna College Scranton, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,229 | 48 | $19,000 | $19,951 | 1.0 |
| 45 | College of Southern Nevada Las Vegas, NV Public · 4-year | $77,929 | 70 | $10,433 | $6,615 | 0.3 |
| 46 | Piedmont Virginia Community College Charlottesville, VA Public · 2-year | $77,433 | 31 † | $11,500 | $5,963 | 0.3 |
| 47 | Alvin Community College Alvin, TX Public · 4-year | $77,210 | 43 | — | $8,525 | 0.4 |
| 48 | Dunwoody College of Technology Minneapolis, MN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,401 | 33 † | $16,000 | $26,939 | 1.4 |
| 49 | University of Alaska Anchorage Anchorage, AK Public · 4-year | $76,360 | 32 † | $18,000 | $15,301 | 0.9 |
| 50 | Mandl School-The College of Allied Health New York, NY For-profit · 2-year | $75,980 | 123 | $22,625 | $35,578 | 1.8 |
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 associate degree programs in Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions (CIP 5109, 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 244.
- 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: 2 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 Diagnostic and Treatment Health Professions 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 Jersey | $79,812 | 9 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Washington | $78,785 | 4 | Bellevue College |
| Oregon | $78,143 | 4 | Chemeketa Community College |
| New York | $77,358 | 18 | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
| Massachusetts | $75,972 | 7 | North Shore Community College |
| California | $74,489 | 11 | Mt San Antonio College |
| Maryland | $73,180 | 6 | Prince George's Community College |
| Kansas | $71,848 | 3 | Washburn University |
| Pennsylvania | $71,518 | 14 | Holy Family University |
| Virginia | $71,342 | 5 | Northern Virginia Community College |
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