Wheaton College Health Sciences (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General
- Private nonprofit college
- Wheaton, IL
- About 5 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Wheaton College health sciences graduates earn about what health sciences graduates earn nationally, $32,375 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $20,356 in federal loans, less than at 87% of health sciences programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying health sciences 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 sciences bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Wheaton College graduates earn more than the national figure and about the same as the Illinois median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Illinois health sciences 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 116% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $216 a month, or 8.0% 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
Prices in the Chicago area are about 4% above the national average, so a $32,375 salary here buys what about $31,252 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 sciences, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Health Education Specialists
$60,120Median pay in Illinois. 1,010 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 6,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Community Health Workers
$49,240Median pay in Illinois. 2,040 people work in this job in Illinois. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 13% from 2025 to 2035, with about 7,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
About Wheaton College
Health Sciences ranks 10th of 15 bachelor's programs at Wheaton College by first-year earnings. The top three are Computer Science ($81,470), Economics ($62,889), and Business Economics ($55,300).
Other health sciences bachelor's programs near Wheaton
Common questions
The median graduate earns $32,375 one year after graduating and $69,891 five years after. The median across health sciences bachelor's programs in Illinois is $34,806.
The median federal loan balance is $20,356, which ranks the lowest of 5 health sciences bachelor's programs in Illinois. That works out to about $216 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 63% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 75%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Illinois programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
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 sciences 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