Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Health Sciences (General) (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences (General) earn a median of $61,296 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $42,849 and $82,291. We rank the 121 U.S. colleges whose Health Sciences (General) programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 11,961 graduates in all. That puts Health Sciences (General) at #60 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Touro University, in New York, leads at $135,742, 125% above the median ranked school ($60,274). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $52,151 and $68,231, and the lowest earns $40,140. 54 of the 121 ranked schools (45%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 9 public, 11 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. California places 4 schools in the top 20, ahead of Kentucky (2).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $20,459 a year, against $17,331 across all 121 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $24,445 in federal loans, about 31% 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 1.9 years.
Showing the top 50 of 121 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Touro University New York, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $135,742 | 169 | $12,500 | $29,627 | 1.2 |
| 2 | University of Delaware Newark, DE Public · 4-year | $107,695 | 35 † | $26,168 | $17,799 | 1.0 |
| 3 | Seattle Central College Seattle, WA Public · 4-year | $85,809 | 73 | $18,907 | $8,819 | 0.8 |
| 4 | Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $84,658 | 118 | — | $29,689 | 2.5 |
| 5 | Dominican University of California San Rafael, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $82,911 | 39 † | $27,000 | $35,333 | 3.1 |
| 6 | University of Kentucky Lexington, KY Public · 4-year | $82,533 | 35 † | $23,000 | $18,851 | 1.6 |
| 7 | California State University-Stanislaus Turlock, CA Public · 4-year | $80,630 | 28 † | $12,415 | $6,067 | 0.6 |
| 8 | Mercy College of Ohio Toledo, OH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $80,420 | 38 † | $26,559 | $17,989 | 1.6 |
| 9 | Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $80,194 | 34 † | — | $26,979 | 2.5 |
| 10 | Boston University Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,431 | 128 | $25,889 | $24,402 | 2.6 |
| 11 | Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Public · 4-year | $77,075 | 395 | $19,000 | $18,784 | 1.8 |
| 12 | Springfield College Springfield, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,417 | 91 | $26,250 | $30,587 | 3.5 |
| 13 | National University San Diego, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,305 | 25 † | $28,334 | $22,878 | 2.3 |
| 14 | Monmouth University West Long Branch, NJ Private nonprofit · 4-year | $75,353 | 110 | $27,000 | $30,988 | 3.2 |
| 15 | Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $74,693 | 276 | $13,042 | $36,708 | 4.5 |
| 16 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL Public · 4-year | $74,152 | 120 | $15,000 | $6,541 | 0.7 |
| 17 | Maryville University of Saint Louis Saint Louis, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $74,114 | 31 † | $27,000 | $22,066 | 2.2 |
| 18 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public · 4-year | $74,079 | 92 | $19,056 | $16,778 | 1.9 |
| 19 | Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY Public · 4-year | $73,478 | 96 | $18,750 | $8,191 | 0.9 |
| 20 | San Diego State University San Diego, CA Public · 4-year | $73,095 | 86 | $26,150 | $15,364 | 1.7 |
| 21 | The University of Tampa Tampa, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $72,531 | 46 | $26,941 | $36,211 | 3.8 |
| 22 | Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,608 | 52 | $25,900 | $28,928 | 3.3 |
| 23 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $69,815 | 299 | $15,750 | $21,315 | 2.4 |
| 24 | Wheaton College Wheaton, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,566 | 27 † | $20,356 | $26,975 | 3.2 |
| 25 | Franklin Pierce University Rindge, NH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,449 | 71 | $27,000 | $27,154 | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO Public · 4-year | $69,333 | 602 | $21,500 | $20,268 | 2.3 |
| 27 | California State University-Chico Chico, CA Public · 4-year | $69,303 | 168 | $19,331 | $14,480 | 1.8 |
| 28 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public · 4-year | $69,195 | 49 | $20,250 | $14,355 | 1.7 |
| 29 | University of New England Biddeford, ME Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,190 | 65 | $27,000 | $38,107 | 4.9 |
| 30 | Misericordia University Dallas, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,418 | 123 | $27,000 | $37,485 | 4.7 |
| 31 | California State University-East Bay Hayward, CA Public · 4-year | $68,231 | 392 | $17,190 | $9,320 | 1.2 |
| 32 | Merrimack College North Andover, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,209 | 34 † | $27,000 | $37,927 | 5.6 |
| 33 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public · 4-year | $68,108 | 139 | $23,000 | $24,406 | 3.1 |
| 34 | Northwestern State University of Louisiana Natchitoches, LA Public · 4-year | $67,765 | 25 † | $19,282 | $13,606 | 1.6 |
| 35 | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $67,637 | 27 † | $27,000 | $39,545 | 5.9 |
| 36 | California State University-Sacramento Sacramento, CA Public · 4-year | $67,182 | 178 | $14,979 | $9,338 | 1.2 |
| 37 | The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX Public · 4-year | $65,617 | 83 | $15,000 | $18,267 | 2.4 |
| 38 | San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA Public · 4-year | $65,252 | 148 | $18,250 | $12,278 | 1.7 |
| 39 | Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MO Public · 4-year | $65,127 | 30 † | $22,375 | $17,613 | 2.3 |
| 40 | Towson University Towson, MD Public · 4-year | $65,108 | 124 | $20,841 | $17,413 | 2.5 |
| 41 | Wilmington University New Castle, DE Private nonprofit · 4-year | $65,064 | 36 † | $15,000 | $15,644 | 2.2 |
| 42 | Bay Path University Longmeadow, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $65,018 | 30 † | $26,375 | $14,271 | 2.4 |
| 43 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year | $64,696 | 80 | $24,000 | $14,967 | 2.1 |
| 44 | Moravian University Bethlehem, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,503 | 30 † | $27,000 | $30,670 | 4.4 |
| 45 | Stockton University Galloway, NJ Public · 4-year | $63,295 | 310 | $19,500 | $20,670 | 3.1 |
| 46 | University of Nevada-Reno Reno, NV Public · 4-year | $63,049 | 313 | $20,500 | $15,927 | 2.4 |
| 47 | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA Public · 4-year | $63,001 | 156 | $26,549 | $19,608 | 3.0 |
| 48 | DePaul University Chicago, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,693 | 165 | $26,500 | $30,902 | 4.6 |
| 49 | Utica University Utica, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,369 | 56 | $23,638 | $19,108 | 2.9 |
| 50 | Otterbein University Westerville, OH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,364 | 33 † | $27,000 | $19,237 | 2.9 |
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 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 121.
- 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | $69,449 | 3 | Southern New Hampshire University |
| Massachusetts | $68,209 | 5 | Boston University |
| California | $67,707 | 12 | Dominican University of California |
| Kentucky | $66,620 | 4 | University of Kentucky |
| Illinois | $65,944 | 4 | Wheaton College |
| Missouri | $65,127 | 5 | Maryville University of Saint Louis |
| Pennsylvania | $64,503 | 9 | Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia |
| New York | $61,358 | 6 | Touro University |
| New Jersey | $59,567 | 6 | Monmouth University |
| Ohio | $58,394 | 4 | Mercy College of Ohio |
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