Gwinnett College (Georgia) Massage Therapy (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services
- Private for-profit college
- Roswell, GA
- About 36 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Gwinnett College (Georgia) massage therapy graduates earn about what massage therapy graduates earn nationally, $17,922 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $12,976 in federal loans, more than at 86% of massage therapy programs in the country. One other Georgia program reports higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Georgia and national columns are the medians across all massage therapy certificate programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Gwinnett College (Georgia) graduates earn more than the national figure and about $2,721 more than the Georgia median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Georgia massage therapy program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Georgia 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 53% between the first and fifth year. Massage therapists in Georgia earn a median of $50,820 across all experience levels, which shows how much room there is to grow after the first few years.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate. BLS figures cover massage therapists at every experience level.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $138 a month, or 9.2% 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.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
87% of graduates (40 of 46) were working in Georgia one year after graduating. Prices in the Atlanta area are about the same as the national average.
The median Georgia massage therapist earns $50,820, compared with a national median of $58,450. After adjusting for Georgia prices, that pay is worth about $52,776, which puts Georgia behind.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to massage therapy, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Massage Therapists
$50,820Median pay in Georgia. 1,700 people work in this job in Georgia. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 15% from 2025 to 2035, with about 20,400 openings a year. Typical education to start: postsecondary nondegree award.
About Gwinnett College (Georgia)
Massage Therapy ranks 2nd of 2 certificate programs at Gwinnett College (Georgia) by first-year earnings. The other is Allied Health and Medical Assisting ($29,476).
Other massage therapy certificate programs near Roswell
Common questions
The median graduate earns $17,922 one year after graduating and $27,445 five years after. Massage therapists in the Atlanta metro area earn a median of $48,610 across all experience levels.
The median federal loan balance is $12,976, which ranks 3rd lowest of 5 massage therapy certificate programs in Georgia. That works out to about $138 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 72% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 41%. Compare the cost with other Georgia programs before deciding.
Most do. 87% (40 of 46) were working in Georgia 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 Georgia 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 massage therapy 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