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Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC · 12 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · 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.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$82,139Observed earnings · year 5
Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula
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
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
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
$15,000Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$159/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$82,139Median earnings · year 5 after completion
Not availableCompletion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
303Student size

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

PRICE BY FAMILY INCOME

Average net price is not one price

Federal averages for aided students in each family-income band. Your aid offer can differ.

$0–30kNot available
$30–48kNot available
$48–75kNot available
$75–110kNot available
$110k+Not available
LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$82,139
Year 6$77,677
Year 10$88,420
Full-time retention
Not available
Part-time retention
Not available
Completion within 200% of normal time
Not available

Earnings timepoints may use different historical cohorts and should not be read as one group’s guaranteed salary growth.

NATIONAL CONTEXT

How this college compares

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

96thEarnings 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.

$96,864Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
$29,043Median federal debt across categories that report debt
33%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$68,631Year 1
$89,770Year 4
$82,139Year 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.

1Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Master's Degree$187,8652Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Master's Degree$180,4003Dentistry · First Professional Degree$172,6954Health and Medical Administrative Services · Doctoral Degree$136,9225Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration · First Professional Degree$135,9536Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Doctoral Degree$110,1187Medicine · First Professional Degree$96,8648Health and Medical Administrative Services · Master's Degree$88,321

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

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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Currently operating public institutions with the closest combination of annual net price and observed year-5 earnings. Similarity is descriptive—not a quality ranking.

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Observed earnings · year 5
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Modeled 10-year ROI
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Annual net price
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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt2023–24 awards
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingMaster's Degree$187,865Not available3
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsMaster's Degree$180,400Not available0
DentistryFirst Professional Degree$172,695Not availableNot reported
Health and Medical Administrative ServicesDoctoral Degree$136,922Not available26
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationFirst Professional Degree$135,953Not availableNot reported
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingDoctoral Degree$110,118Not available91
MedicineFirst Professional Degree$96,864Not availableNot reported
Health and Medical Administrative ServicesMaster's Degree$88,321Not availableNot reported
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsDoctoral Degree$78,839Not available127
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingBachelor's Degree$78,576$29,043Not reported
Medical Illustration and InformaticsMaster's Degree$77,660Not availableNot reported
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic ProfessionsMaster's Degree$70,076Not 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.