CIP 5004 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Sessions College for Professional Design

Design and Applied Arts at Sessions College for Professional Design

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Sessions College for Professional Design. 51 completers in the most recent 4-year window (41 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $36,096.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$36,096
Arizona CIP-4 median $38,909
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$39,837
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$11,571
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
51
41 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 Sessions College for Professional Design

4.3%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $11,571 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $36,096.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

4.0%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Arizona CIP 5004 peer-median earnings $38,909.

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$11,571
$11,875$9,09620142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201951
512520142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+27%

Design and Applied Arts at Sessions College for Professional Design · debt_median rose

9,096 → 11,571

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
-$51,765
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$20,732
HS-only baseline · AZ
$36,200
Years to complete
1
CIP family
50

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

PEER COMPARISON · CIP 5004

Design and Applied Arts across Arizona institutions

Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all Arizona Title-IV institutions where Scorecard publishes outcomes. Cohort floor is 30 students.

Mesa Community CollegePEER$38,90915 grads
Sessions College for Professional DesignTHIS PROGRAM$36,09651 grads
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 →