CIP 1304 · Master's Degree · Concordia University-Chicago

Educational Administration and Supervision at Concordia University-Chicago

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Concordia University-Chicago. 420 completers in the most recent 4-year window (426 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $81,887.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$81,887
Illinois CIP-4 median $74,965
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$75,305
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$24,000
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
420
426 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 Concordia University-Chicago

3.9%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $24,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $81,887.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

4.3%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Illinois CIP 1304 peer-median earnings $74,965.

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$24,000
$24,633$17,00020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019420
47731620142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+41%

Educational Administration and Supervision at Concordia University-Chicago · debt_median rose

17,000 → 24,000

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
$501,397
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 10
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 10year 0year 39
Cost per year
$17,318
HS-only baseline · IL
$38,300
Years to complete
6
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 →