CIP 4805 · Associate's Degree · Pueblo Community College

Precision Metal Working at Pueblo Community College

Federal outcomes for associate's degree graduates of Pueblo Community College. 42 completers in the most recent 4-year window (36 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $45,868.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$45,868
Colorado CIP-4 median $53,353
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$45,494
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$6,750
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
42
36 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 Pueblo Community College

2.0%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $6,750 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $45,868.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

1.7%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Colorado CIP 4805 peer-median earnings $53,353.

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$6,750
$10,853$6,75020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201942
543220142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-31%

Precision Metal Working at Pueblo Community College · debt_median fell

9,750 → 6,750

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
$139,937
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 15
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 15year 0year 39
Cost per year
$12,793
HS-only baseline · CO
$40,100
Years to complete
2
CIP family
48

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 4805

Precision Metal Working across Colorado institutions

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

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 →