CIP 1301 · Graduate/Professional Certificate · Southern Connecticut State University

Education, General at Southern Connecticut State University

Federal outcomes for graduate/professional certificate graduates of Southern Connecticut State University. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $53,291.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$53,291
Statewide peers reporting · 0
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$52,907
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
IPEDS award counts
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 · 20142016$40,705
$40,705$31,60020142016
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142016+29%

Education, General at Southern Connecticut State University · debt_median rose

31,600 → 40,705

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
$30,847
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 31
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 31year 0year 39
Cost per year
$18,938
HS-only baseline · CT
$42,300
Years to complete
5
CIP family
13

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 →