Loyola Chicago Health and Medical Administration (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Health and Medical Administrative Services
- Private nonprofit university
- Chicago, IL
- About 32 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Loyola Chicago health and medical administration graduates earn more than graduates of most health and medical administration programs nationally, $57,876 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $23,000 in federal loans, less than at 87% of health and medical administration programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying health and medical administration degrees in Illinois.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Illinois and national columns are the medians across all health and medical administration bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Loyola Chicago graduates earn more than the national figure and about $12,710 more than the Illinois median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Illinois health and medical administration program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Illinois 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 37% 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 $5,413 less in their first year than other graduates. Students who expect to rely on grants should weigh this gap.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $244 a month, or 5.1% 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, 27 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $71,539.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
97% of graduates (61 of 63) were working in Illinois one year after graduating. Prices in the Chicago area are about 4% above the national average, so a $57,876 salary here buys what about $55,868 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 health and medical administration, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
$69,010Median pay in Illinois. 42,400 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to stay about the same in number from 2025 to 2035, with about 127,400 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
$46,670Median pay in Illinois. 27,560 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 89,200 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
Medical Assistants
$46,090Median pay in Illinois. 20,260 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 13% from 2025 to 2035, with about 109,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: postsecondary nondegree award.
Computer User Support Specialists
$59,860Median pay in Illinois. 26,060 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to shrink 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 39,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: some college, no degree.
About Loyola Chicago
Health and Medical Administration ranks 9th of 30 bachelor's programs at Loyola Chicago by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($76,869), Accounting ($69,965), and Computer and Information Science ($68,950).
Other health and medical administration bachelor's programs near Chicago
Common questions
The median graduate earns $57,876 one year after graduating and $79,385 five years after. The median across health and medical administration bachelor's programs in Illinois is $45,365.
The median federal loan balance is $23,000, which ranks 3rd lowest of 10 health and medical administration bachelor's programs in Illinois. That works out to about $244 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 40% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 67%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 20% or less.
Most do. 97% (61 of 63) were working in Illinois 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 Illinois 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 health and medical administration 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