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College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Concordia College at Moorhead

Moorhead, MN · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 1,829 undergrads · 63% admitted

Do students finish?
61% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$45,942/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$183,768 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$59,317 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $43,119 median $59,317 75th pct $81,521

80% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

14 Bachelor's programs · $15,350 to $61,933 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $61,933 $27,000
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $52,813 $24,193
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $41,280 $25,750
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $39,689 $27,000
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $39,558 $27,000
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $38,632 $24,751
Mathematics.Bachelor's $37,649 $24,187
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $30,497
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $28,432 $27,000
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $26,269 $27,000
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $25,606 $26,000
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $22,781
Biology, General.Bachelor's $22,185 $26,250
International/Globalization Studies.Bachelor's $15,350 $27,000

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt
$20,895
35% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (14 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website