Associate degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Health Sciences (General) (Associate)
Graduates who complete a associate degree in Health Sciences (General) earn a median of $51,180 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $35,101 and $72,128. We rank the 25 U.S. colleges whose Health Sciences (General) programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 1,871 graduates in all. That puts Health Sciences (General) at #8 of 27 associate degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
University of Mount Olive, in North Carolina, leads at $78,247, 49% above the median ranked school ($52,373). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $47,381 and $57,824, and the lowest earns $38,875, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 14 of the 25 ranked schools (56%) 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, 88% are public. The top 20 are spread across 11 states, with New York the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $10,585 a year, against $9,804 across all 25 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $11,000 in federal loans, about 20% 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 1.2 years.
Showing the top 25 of 25 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | University of Mount Olive Mount Olive, NC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,247 | 52 | $29,492 | $18,853 | 0.9 |
| 2 | North Country Community College Saranac Lake, NY Public · 2-year | $72,163 | 88 | $12,500 | $11,868 | 0.7 |
| 3 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $67,456 | 122 | $11,695 | $10,258 | 0.7 |
| 4 | Lehigh Carbon Community College Schnecksville, PA Public · 2-year | $65,927 | 28 † | $10,154 | $9,203 | 0.6 |
| 5 | Roxbury Community College Roxbury Crossing, MA Public · 2-year | $60,465 | 82 | — | $12,244 | 1.3 |
| 6 | Cameron University Lawton, OK Public · 4-year | $60,153 | 66 | $18,202 | $10,912 | 0.9 |
| 7 | Salt Lake Community College Salt Lake City, UT Public · 2-year | $57,824 | 58 | $8,500 | $9,804 | 1.0 |
| 8 | Central Lakes College-Brainerd Brainerd, MN Public · 2-year | $57,304 | 30 † | $14,500 | $13,869 | 1.4 |
| 9 | University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio, TX Private nonprofit · 4-year | $55,307 | 73 | — | $22,775 | 2.2 |
| 10 | Middlesex College Edison, NJ Public · 2-year | $55,217 | 49 | $5,500 | $2,288 | 0.3 |
| 11 | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College New York, NY Public · 2-year | $54,599 | 89 | $6,500 | $4,976 | 0.5 |
| 12 | Butler Community College El Dorado, KS Public · 2-year | $54,208 | 54 | $12,000 | $15,724 | 1.6 |
| 13 | Community College of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Public · 2-year | $52,373 | 111 | $10,750 | $11,911 | 1.5 |
| 14 | Northern Wyoming Community College District Sheridan, WY Public · 4-year | $52,090 | 32 † | $9,390 | $9,346 | 1.4 |
| 15 | Holyoke Community College Holyoke, MA Public · 2-year | $50,953 | 51 | $10,685 | $8,068 | 1.6 |
| 16 | Paris Junior College Paris, TX Public · 2-year | $49,653 | 54 | — | $7,690 | 1.0 |
| 17 | Delaware County Community College Media, PA Public · 2-year | $49,487 | 122 | $11,228 | $6,576 | 1.0 |
| 18 | SUNY Broome Community College Binghamton, NY Public · 2-year | $47,859 | 133 | $11,000 | $8,940 | 1.5 |
| 19 | Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus Sewell, NJ Public · 2-year | $47,381 | 162 | $13,750 | $12,378 | 2.4 |
| 20 | Carl Albert State College Poteau, OK Public · 2-year | $44,939 | 123 | $7,642 | $14,607 | 2.9 |
| 21 | Hudson County Community College Jersey City, NJ Public · 2-year | $44,758 | 25 † | — | $7,307 | 1.9 |
| 22 | CUNY Queensborough Community College Bayside, NY Public · 2-year | $44,067 | 163 | $6,750 | $4,458 | 1.1 |
| 23 | Quinsigamond Community College Worcester, MA Public · 2-year | $42,068 | 28 † | — | $9,090 | — |
| 24 | Fulton-Montgomery Community College Johnstown, NY Public · 2-year | $41,159 | 40 | $14,160 | $6,696 | 2.5 |
| 25 | Berkeley College-Woodland Park Woodland Park, NJ For-profit · 4-year | $38,875 | 36 † | $15,244 | $27,100 | — |
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 Health Sciences (General) (CIP 5100, 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 25.
- 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 Health Sciences (General) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | $52,373 | 3 | Lehigh Carbon Community College |
| Massachusetts | $50,953 | 3 | Roxbury Community College |
| New York | $47,859 | 5 | North Country Community College |
| New Jersey | $46,070 | 4 | Middlesex College |
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