John Jay College Clinical and Counseling Psychology (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
- Public college
- New York, NY
- About 537 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
John Jay College clinical and counseling psychology graduates earn about what clinical and counseling psychology graduates earn nationally, $35,656 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $13,421 in federal loans, less than at 92% of clinical and counseling psychology programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying clinical and counseling psychology degrees in New York.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The New York and national columns are the medians across all clinical and counseling psychology bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, John Jay College graduates earn more than the national figure and about the same as the New York median.
Debt and first-year pay at every New York clinical and counseling psychology program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the New York medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 55% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned about the same in their first year as other graduates. They also borrowed less. At this program, the outcome does not look worse for students with less money.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $142 a month, or 4.8% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual. Separately, 50 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $23,537.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
86% of graduates (427 of 497) were working in New York one year after graduating. Prices in the New York area are about 13% above the national average, so a $35,656 salary here buys what about $31,676 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to clinical and counseling psychology, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Human Resources Specialists
$84,380Median pay in New York. 54,610 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 73,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Management Analysts
$112,250Median pay in New York. 69,150 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 10% from 2025 to 2035, with about 94,100 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Training and Development Specialists
$76,080Median pay in New York. 27,460 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 11% from 2025 to 2035, with about 46,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
$71,610Median pay in New York. 23,380 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 3% from 2025 to 2035, with about 27,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
About John Jay College
Clinical and Counseling Psychology ranks 11th of 17 bachelor's programs at John Jay College by first-year earnings. The top three are Information Technology ($49,580), Public Administration ($48,881), and Fire Science ($48,121).
Other clinical and counseling psychology bachelor's programs near New York
Common questions
The median graduate earns $35,656 one year after graduating and $55,307 five years after. The median across clinical and counseling psychology bachelor's programs in New York is $35,656.
The median federal loan balance is $13,421, which ranks the lowest of 6 clinical and counseling psychology bachelor's programs in New York. That works out to about $142 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 38% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 81%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 10% or less.
Most do. 86% (427 of 497) were working in New York one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of New York comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the clinical and counseling psychology program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024