CIP 4502 · Bachelor's Degree · Idaho State University

Anthropology at Idaho State University

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Idaho State University. 11 completers in the most recent 4-year window (10 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $35,746.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$35,746
Idaho CIP-4 median $39,991
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$29,207
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
11
10 most recent year
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 · 20142017$27,375
$31,000$27,00020142017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201911
181020142019
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
-$73,058
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$17,797
HS-only baseline · ID
$35,100
Years to complete
4
CIP family
45

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 4502

Anthropology across Idaho institutions

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

Boise State UniversityPEER$39,99128 grads
Idaho State UniversityTHIS PROGRAM$35,74611 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 →