Health & medicine

Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions

University of Arkansas-Fort Smith · Fort Smith, AR

Medium evidenceMatched peers6 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$13,770Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$21,403Related subjects at 9 matched peer institutions · graduate certificate

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Graduate certificate · 1 year after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$52,646
Same subject · national$64,029
Health & medicine · national$53,150

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 6 matched peer institutions · graduate certificate

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $30,274–$87,142.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Graduate certificate outcomes · 1 year after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Indiana University-SoutheastHealth and Medical Administrative Services$35,954
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at CobleskillAllied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions$69,338
Purdue University Fort WayneDental Support Services and Allied Professions$28,381
Louisiana State University-AlexandriaAllied Health and Medical Assisting Services$23,456
Indiana State UniversityRegistered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing$93,076
The University of Texas at TylerRegistered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing$106,421
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗