CIP 0306 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Northern Arizona University

Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management at Northern Arizona University

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Northern Arizona University. 39 completers in the most recent 4-year window (43 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $48,382.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$48,382
Statewide peers reporting · 0
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$39,645
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$20,368
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
39
43 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at Northern Arizona University

5.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $20,368 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $48,382.

SECTION 02 · PROGRAM HISTORY

How this program has shifted

Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.

DEBT · 20142018$20,368
$26,000$19,88420142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201939
432820142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-22%

Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management at Northern Arizona University · debt_median fell

26,000 → 20,368

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome of this program

Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

NET PRESENT VALUE
$311,776
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 4
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 4year 0year 39
Cost per year
$14,211
HS-only baseline · AZ
$36,200
Years to complete
1
CIP family
03

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

SUPPRESSION & SELECTION

What this page tells you, and what it doesn't

Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.

Methodology →