CIP 1002 · Associate's Degree · Los Angeles Film School

Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians at Los Angeles Film School

Federal outcomes for associate's degree graduates of Los Angeles Film School. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $27,431.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$27,431
California CIP-4 median $34,511
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$25,660
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$18,625
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
IPEDS award counts
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 Los Angeles Film School

9.0%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $18,625 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $27,431.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

7.2%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the California CIP 1002 peer-median earnings $34,511.

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$18,625
$21,084$18,62520142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201754
2145420142017
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
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
-$319,767
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$32,681
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
Years to complete
2
CIP family
10

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 1002

Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians across California institutions

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

California College of ASUPEER$34,51121 grads
Los Angeles Film SchoolTHIS PROGRAM$27,431
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 →