Is Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing Worth It?

Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing gives you one of the cleaner ROI profiles you'll find. You graduate with median debt of $19,750 and earn about $96,980 ten years out. That debt equals roughly a quarter of a single year's median earnings, so you can clear it quickly on a nurse's salary in the New York City market, where hospital demand and pay run high.

This is a single-focus nursing school, so there's no weak major dragging down the average. Your return hinges entirely on nursing, and nursing pays. The 100% graduation rate means you're not gambling on whether you finish, which is where a lot of ROI bets go wrong at other schools. If you enroll, you finish, and finishing here reliably lands you in a well-paid field.

The risk specific to this school is that it's all-in on one path. If you decide nursing isn't for you partway through, there's no other program to pivot to, and you'd carry the private-nonprofit cost without the payoff. This is a fit if you already know you want to be a nurse in the New York area. If you're undecided, a broader school protects you better.

The low Pell share, 1.52%, tells you this student body skews toward higher-income families, not that most people pay sticker price. Check the net price tiers by income before assuming what you'll owe. Lower-income families should look hard at the bottom tiers, since the earnings here support the debt even at higher net prices. Given the salary you can expect, the cost is defensible across income levels as long as you complete the nursing degree.