Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at Brookline College-Phoenix

Brookline College-Phoenix's lab science certificate starts graduates at $25,699—nearly $3,000 below Arizona's median for this credential and $5,400 below the national benchmark. More troubling, earnings drop 13% by year four to just $22,262, when most certificate holders should be building experience and seeing modest gains. Among Arizona's 18 programs, this ranks at the 40th percentile, placing it in the bottom half of state options. For comparison, Pima Medical Institute's Phoenix campus produces graduates earning $33,825—a $8,000 difference in the same metro area.

The debt picture looks manageable at first glance—$13,599 is below many certificate programs—but the ratio tells a different story. At 0.53, graduates face debt equal to more than half their first-year earnings, and that burden only grows heavier as wages decline rather than rise. With 58% of students qualifying for Pell grants, many families here are counting on economic mobility that these numbers don't support.

If your child is committed to lab science in Phoenix, the Pima Medical Institute campuses demonstrate substantially stronger outcomes for similar training. This program's combination of below-average starting pay and backward earnings trajectory makes it difficult to justify when better-performing alternatives exist within the same market.