Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL · Private nonprofit · Associate-granting · 17,678 undergrads · 97% admitted

Do students finish?
61% complete

Most students who start here finish.

For 2-year colleges this undercounts students who transfer to a 4-year school before finishing here.

What does it cost?
$43,251/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships.

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.

$39,696 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $21,628 median $39,696 75th pct $60,050

56% 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.

18 Associate's programs · $16,830 to $56,116 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Associate's $56,116 $26,380
Fire Protection.Associate's $52,031
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.Associate's $44,294 $20,000
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.Associate's $43,679 $26,500
Homeland Security.Associate's $38,652 $30,250
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Associate's $33,484 $24,499
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Associate's $33,037 $22,500
Accounting and Related Services.Associate's $32,531 $23,281
Public Health.Associate's $29,045 $28,571
Legal Support Services.Associate's $28,650 $24,250
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.Associate's $28,258 $22,125
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Associate's $28,014 $23,770
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.Associate's $26,378 $13,281
Culinary Arts and Related Services.Associate's $25,910 $18,500
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Associate's $25,000 $20,000
Health and Medical Administrative Services.Associate's $24,518 $22,938
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Associate's $22,048 $19,245
Design and Applied Arts.Associate's $16,830 $24,486

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
$13,000
33% 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 (43 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