Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians at Wichita Technical Institute
Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Wichita Technical Institute. 226 completers in the most recent 4-year window (135 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $39,838.
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 Wichita Technical Institute
4.3%Median federal debt $13,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $39,838.
How this program has shifted
Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.
Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians at Wichita Technical Institute · debt_median fell
16,500 → 13,000
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%.
- Cost per year
- $19,805
- HS-only baseline · KS
- $36,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 15
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
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.