Private nonprofit · COLLEGE PAYOFF

Adler University

Chicago, IL · 5 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

10-year estimate · Uncertain payoff

Payoff needs your actual price

ROI withheld because the institution-wide price is missing, below the reliability floor or produces an extreme price-sensitive scenario.

There is not enough reported information to classify the payoff reliably.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$74,729Observed earnings · year 4
Maximum annual price for positive 10-year payoff
Includes direct price and earnings forgone while studying. Assumes $45,000 in alternative annual earnings and no wage growth. How we calculate it
PAYOFF CURVE

Not enough reliable price data to model ROI.

FEDERAL COST DATA

Four ways to read college price.

Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.

Published in-state tuitionNot available
Sticker price
Published out-of-state tuitionNot available
Sticker price
Average net priceNot available
Title IV student average
Cost of attendanceNot available
Tuition + living budget
PRICE SOURCECollege reported · annual amount · federal dataset
COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

Institution details

Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.

Accreditor
Higher Learning Commission
Main award level
Bachelor’s degrees
Campus setting
City
Admissions
Not reported
Delivery
Campus or mixed delivery
Federal designation
No special designation reported
Sources: College Scorecard June 2026 release and IPEDS 2024 institutional characteristics.
OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

Not availableAverage net price / year
Not availableCost of attendance
Not availableMedian federal student debt · completer borrowers
Not availablePublished 10-year payment estimate
$74,729Median earnings · year 4 after completion
Not availableCompletion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
9Student size

Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.

NATIONAL CONTEXT

How this college compares

Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.

93thEarnings percentile
WHAT STANDS OUT

A faster read on this college

These summaries use only reportable field-and-credential records at this institution. They do not fill privacy-suppressed outcomes.

$59,827Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
Not availableMedian federal debt across categories that report debt
20%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$71,760Year 1
$74,729Year 4
Not availableYear 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

PROGRAM PAYOFF SPREAD

The college average is not the whole story.

Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.

1Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Doctoral Degree$103,7132Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Master's Degree$61,3283Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions · Master's Degree$59,8274Psychology, General · Master's Degree$59,5115Business Administration, Management and Operations · Master's Degree$50,502

Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding

Strongest relative outcomes

Programs that stand out against the same-degree benchmark

This view rewards performance relative to the same field and credential—not simply majors that pay more everywhere.

1Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyDoctoral Degree · $103,713 reported+4%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt2Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyMaster's Degree · $61,328 reported-6%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt3Psychology, GeneralMaster's Degree · $59,511 reported-8%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt4Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsMaster's Degree · $59,827 reported-16%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt5Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree · $50,502 reported-51%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt
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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt2023–24 awards
Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyDoctoral Degree$103,713Not available118
Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyMaster's Degree$61,328Not availableNot reported
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsMaster's Degree$59,827Not available0
Psychology, GeneralMaster's Degree$59,511Not availableNot reported
Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree$50,502Not availableNot reported

Awards use first-major IPEDS completions aggregated to the same four-digit field and credential.

Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.