CIP 5138 · Master's Degree · Walden University

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Walden University

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Walden University. 4,104 completers in the most recent 4-year window (4,106 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $117,144.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$117,144
Minnesota CIP-4 median $124,928
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$106,295
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$53,686
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
4,104
4,106 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at Walden University

6.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $53,686 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $117,144.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

5.7%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Minnesota CIP 5138 peer-median earnings $124,928.

SECTION 02 · PROGRAM HISTORY

How this program has shifted

Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.

DEBT · 20142018$53,686
$54,667$50,21820142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 201420194,104
4,1062,87120142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
ANNUAL COMPLETERS · 20142019+43%

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Walden University · annual completers rose

2,871 → 4,104

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome of this program

Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Master's Degree at Walden University(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

PEER COMPARISON · CIP 5138

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing across Minnesota institutions

Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all Minnesota Title-IV institutions where Scorecard publishes outcomes. Cohort floor is 30 students.

SUPPRESSION & SELECTION

What this page tells you, and what it doesn't

Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.

Methodology →