Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Pre-Health Programs (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Pre-Health Programs earn a median of $61,911 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $42,679 and $83,434. We rank the 27 U.S. colleges whose Pre-Health Programs programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,149 graduates in all. That puts Pre-Health Programs at #59 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Mount Saint Mary's University, in California, leads at $105,024, 62% above the median ranked school ($64,722). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $54,840 and $71,837, and the lowest earns $42,925. 16 of the 27 ranked schools (59%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 11 public, 9 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Ohio places 6 schools in the top 20, ahead of Michigan (2).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $19,205 a year, against $18,838 across all 27 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $23,562 in federal loans, about 35% 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 2.7 years.
Showing the top 27 of 27 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Mount Saint Mary's University Los Angeles, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $105,024 | 26 † | $27,000 | $21,413 | 1.3 |
| 2 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $95,081 | 86 | $23,000 | $38,509 | 2.6 |
| 3 | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $90,224 | 97 | $27,000 | $39,545 | 3.2 |
| 4 | Wingate University Wingate, NC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,487 | 49 | $23,000 | $20,748 | 1.9 |
| 5 | University of Dayton Dayton, OH Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,475 | 67 | $23,562 | $29,533 | 2.9 |
| 6 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA Public · 4-year | $73,383 | 81 | $26,000 | $15,699 | 1.7 |
| 7 | Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH Public · 4-year | $72,484 | 49 | $23,250 | $28,384 | 3.1 |
| 8 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | $71,189 | 46 | $19,500 | $17,339 | 2.0 |
| 9 | Madonna University Livonia, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,333 | 25 † | $26,750 | $17,755 | 2.1 |
| 10 | Baylor University Waco, TX Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,460 | 109 | $25,000 | $41,104 | 4.9 |
| 11 | Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH Public · 4-year | $67,214 | 61 | $18,250 | $14,764 | 1.9 |
| 12 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $66,126 | 25 † | — | $10,258 | 1.5 |
| 13 | University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH Public · 4-year | $65,928 | 41 | $20,649 | $13,946 | 1.9 |
| 14 | Manchester University North Manchester, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,722 | 26 † | $24,250 | $18,805 | 2.7 |
| 15 | Nazareth University Rochester, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,585 | 34 † | $27,000 | $29,357 | 4.4 |
| 16 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI Public · 4-year | $62,501 | 180 | $25,017 | $16,317 | 2.4 |
| 17 | Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH Public · 4-year | $57,360 | 67 | $26,000 | $20,787 | 3.9 |
| 18 | Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL Public · 4-year | $55,778 | 188 | $22,500 | $13,391 | 2.7 |
| 19 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR Public · 4-year | $55,245 | 67 | $22,731 | $19,604 | 4.3 |
| 20 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year | $55,043 | 330 | $22,935 | $14,967 | 3.2 |
| 21 | Averett University Danville, VA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,637 | 27 † | $23,500 | $22,925 | 5.1 |
| 22 | Western Washington University Bellingham, WA Public · 4-year | $53,428 | 39 † | $17,708 | $21,193 | 6.6 |
| 23 | Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI Public · 4-year | $53,376 | 69 | $30,625 | $10,775 | 2.3 |
| 24 | Aurora University Aurora, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $52,987 | 37 † | $19,050 | $18,838 | 4.5 |
| 25 | Benedictine University Lisle, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $50,130 | 49 | $22,697 | $22,313 | 6.4 |
| 26 | University of South Alabama Mobile, AL Public · 4-year | $47,019 | 167 | $28,000 | $17,648 | 4.8 |
| 27 | Marshall University Huntington, WV Public · 4-year | $42,925 | 107 | $24,000 | $7,502 | 3.4 |
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 Pre-Health Programs (CIP 5111, 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 27.
- 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 Pre-Health Programs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | $69,202 | 6 | University of Dayton |
| Michigan | $62,501 | 3 | Madonna University |
| Illinois | $52,987 | 3 | Northern Illinois University |
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