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College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Millersville, PA · Public · Bachelor-granting · 5,728 undergrads · 86% admitted

Do students finish?
58% complete

A large share of students do not finish; the cost is the same whether or not you graduate.

What does it cost?
$26,913/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$107,652 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.

$55,246 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $37,409 median $55,246 75th pct $73,479

78% 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.

25 Bachelor's programs · $26,291 to $72,336 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $72,336 $10,642
Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians.Bachelor's $60,940 $25,000
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $53,301 $25,000
Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.Bachelor's $46,393 $26,000
Mathematics.Bachelor's $44,527 $24,059
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $43,694 $27,000
Chemistry.Bachelor's $43,013 $18,250
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $42,758 $22,849
Economics.Bachelor's $41,359
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $38,964 $25,000
History.Bachelor's $38,218 $25,000
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $35,775 $26,000
Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $34,349
Biology, General.Bachelor's $32,733 $26,000
Sociology.Bachelor's $32,569 $25,436
Anthropology.Bachelor's $32,083
Music.Bachelor's $31,413 $26,500
Area Studies.Bachelor's $31,045 $24,964
Social Work.Bachelor's $30,864 $24,534
Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $30,531 $25,000
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $29,364 $22,229
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $29,079 $22,250
Social Sciences, Other.Bachelor's $27,983 $27,000
Fine and Studio Arts.Bachelor's $27,344 $25,000
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.Bachelor's $26,291 $23,250

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
$17,220
31% 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 (31 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