10-YEAR PAYOFF CURVECumulative economic payoff after graduation
+$14,166at year 10Net gainInvestment not yet recovered
NET GAIN$0UNRECOVERED
Trocaire College
⌖ Buffalo, NY · 5 reportable field-and-credential outcomes
10-year estimate · Positive payoff
+$14,166 over 10 years
Modeled from observed year-5 institution earnings and the institution-wide average net price over four years.
The estimate clears the cost within ten years, though your price and time to finish may change the result.
9.5 yrsModeled economic break-even
+6%Modeled 10-year ROI
$71,071Observed earnings · year 5
$20,178Maximum annual price for positive 10-year payoff
The price benchmark is $3,542 per year below this threshold.
Includes direct price and earnings forgone while studying. Assumes $45,000 in alternative annual earnings and no wage growth. How we calculate itECONOMIC INVESTMENT → PAYBACK
Estimated payoff over ten years.
The scenario counts direct price and earnings forgone upfront, then applies the reported annual earnings premium.
FEDERAL COST DATA
Four ways to read college price.
Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.
COLLEGE AT A GLANCE
Institution details
Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.
- Accreditor
- Middle States Commission on Higher Education
- Main award level
- Associate degrees
- Campus setting
- City
- Admissions
- Selective admission
- Delivery
- Campus or mixed delivery
- Federal designation
- No special designation reported
Cost, debt, completion and earnings context
$16,636Average net price / year
$29,845Cost of attendance
$20,000Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$212/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$71,071Median earnings · year 5 after completion
30.9%Completion rate
97.5%Admission rate
984Student size
Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.
NATIONAL CONTEXT
How this college compares
Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.
WHAT STANDS OUT
A faster read on this college
These summaries use only reportable field-and-credential records at this institution. They do not fill privacy-suppressed outcomes.
EARNINGS PATH
Reported earnings over time
$52,984Year 1
$69,860Year 4
$71,071Year 5
Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.
The college average is not the whole story.
Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.
1Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree$90,7982Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Associate's Degree$83,6883Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$73,1764Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Associate's Degree$63,2015Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$61,795Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding
Programs that stand out against the same-degree benchmark
This view rewards performance relative to the same field and credential—not simply majors that pay more everywhere.
1Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $73,176 reported+27%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt2Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing AssistantsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $61,795 reported+10%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt3Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssociate's Degree · $83,688 reported+4%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt4Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingBachelor's Degree · $90,798 reported+2%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt5Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsAssociate's Degree · $63,201 reported-3%vs same-degree national median$21,588federal debt
Comparable colleges in NY
Currently operating private nonprofit institutions with the closest combination of annual net price and observed year-5 earnings. Similarity is descriptive—not a quality ranking.
Utica, NY
Utica University
- Annual net price
- $19,108
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $71,267
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- +2%
Daemen University
- Annual net price
- $18,693
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $69,195
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -5%
Arnot Ogden Medical Center
- Annual net price
- $20,068
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $69,988
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -4%
Marion S Whelan School of Nursing of Geneva General Hospital
- Annual net price
- $14,370
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $73,651
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- +21%
Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes
| Federal field | Credential | Earnings, year 4 | Federal debt | 2023–24 awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | Bachelor's Degree | $90,798 | Not available | Not reported |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | Associate's Degree | $83,688 | Not available | Not reported |
| Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $73,176 | Not available | 58 |
| Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions | Associate's Degree | $63,201 | $21,588 | Not reported |
| Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $61,795 | Not available | 20 |
Awards use first-major IPEDS completions aggregated to the same four-digit field and credential.
Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.