Which Western Suffolk BOCES certificate program has the lowest debt?

Cosmetology graduates leave with a median of $7,210 in federal loans, the lowest among 4 Western Suffolk BOCES certificate programs that report debt.

How much does Western Suffolk BOCES cost?

Tuition and fees for the school's largest program are $45,900 for the whole program.

How many Western Suffolk BOCES programs report graduate pay?

4 certificate programs at Western Suffolk BOCES report first-year pay, and all of them also report federal debt.

Western Suffolk BOCES Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Public school
Northport, NY
286 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

4 Western Suffolk BOCES certificate programs report what graduates earn. Diagnostic and Treatment Professions pays the most in the first year ($69,774), and Cosmetology the least ($17,906). The median program pays $49,551.

Tuition for the largest program$45,900Tuition and fees for the whole program

Graduation rate84%Within 1.5 times the normal program length

All 4 certificate programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in New York" compares first-year pay with the same field's certificate programs across New York. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in New York
1	Diagnostic and Treatment ProfessionsAbout 41 graduates a year	$69,774	$77,662	$20,000	3rd of 8
2	Practical NursingAbout 12 graduates a year	$55,150	$52,869	$14,750	7th of 33
3	Vehicle Maintenance and RepairAbout 50 graduates a year	$43,952	$61,136	$16,717	2nd of 4
4	CosmetologyAbout 42 graduates a year	$17,906	$29,809	$7,210	13th of 29

Program names link to the program's own page, and New York ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five New York programs in the field do too.

Common questions

Diagnostic and Treatment Professions graduates earn a median of $69,774 in their first year, the most of 4 Western Suffolk BOCES certificate programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
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 rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels