CIP 5123 · Master's Degree · USC

Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions at USC

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of USC. 155 completers in the most recent 4-year window (158 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $86,384.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$86,384
California CIP-4 median $84,746
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$79,753
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$136,289
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
155
158 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 USC

21.0%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $136,289 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $86,384.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

21.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the California CIP 5123 peer-median earnings $84,746.

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$136,289
$136,289$112,44120142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019155
18312720142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+21%

Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions at USC · debt_median rose

112,679 → 136,289

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
$601,458
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 11
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 11year 0year 39
Cost per year
$18,993
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
Years to complete
6
CIP family
51

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 →