CIP 5138 · Associate's Degree · Western Piedmont Community College

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Western Piedmont Community College

Federal outcomes for associate's degree graduates of Western Piedmont Community College. 29 completers in the most recent 4-year window (17 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $75,958.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$75,958
North Carolina CIP-4 median $70,228
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$63,274
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
29
17 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.

COMPLETERS · 2014201929
361720142019
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
$854,206
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 2
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 2year 0year 39
Cost per year
$6,749
HS-only baseline · NC
$35,600
Years to complete
2
CIP family
51

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 5138

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing across North Carolina institutions

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

Bladen Community CollegePEER$83,29039 gradsVance-Granville Community CollegePEER$81,13947 gradsRichmond Community CollegePEER$76,77438 grads
Western Piedmont Community CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$75,95829 grads
Stanly Community CollegePEER$75,52620 gradsCape Fear Community CollegePEER$74,94569 gradsGardner-Webb UniversityPEER$74,29412 gradsDurham Technical Community CollegePEER$74,09232 gradsSandhills Community CollegePEER$73,82260 gradsCleveland Community CollegePEER$73,72019 gradsWilson Community CollegePEER$73,63952 gradsForsyth Technical Community CollegePEER$73,441115 gradsFayetteville Technical Community CollegePEER$73,26868 gradsSouthwestern Community CollegePEER$72,73322 gradsRowan-Cabarrus Community CollegePEER$72,62988 gradsIsothermal Community CollegePEER$72,36426 gradsWake Technical Community CollegePEER$72,186131 gradsNash Community CollegePEER$72,14022 gradsSampson Community CollegePEER$71,87436 gradsBrunswick Community CollegePEER$71,30726 gradsPitt Community CollegePEER$70,703113 gradsCabarrus College of Health SciencesPEER$70,58974 gradsCatawba Valley Community CollegePEER$70,33650 gradsDavidson-Davie Community CollegePEER$70,25081 gradsCoastal Carolina Community CollegePEER$70,22832 gradsGuilford Technical Community CollegePEER$69,87964 gradsCentral Piedmont Community CollegePEER$69,816102 gradsCarolinas College of Health SciencesPEER$67,78695 gradsCentral Carolina Community CollegePEER$67,45213 gradsWayne Community CollegePEER$67,39038 gradsRobeson Community CollegePEER$67,24936 gradsHaywood Community CollegePEER$67,05519 gradsEdgecombe Community CollegePEER$66,28617 gradsJohnston Community CollegePEER$65,71946 gradsBeaufort County Community CollegePEER$65,29532 gradsSoutheastern Community CollegePEER$65,22045 gradsBlue Ridge Community CollegePEER$65,06227 gradsMayland Community CollegePEER$64,40616 gradsGaston CollegePEER$64,23971 gradsCaldwell Community College and Technical InstitutePEER$64,15839 gradsAlamance Community CollegePEER$63,58520 gradsMitchell Community CollegePEER$63,39850 gradsCollege of the AlbemarlePEER$63,29537 gradsHalifax Community CollegePEER$63,24219 gradsCraven Community CollegePEER$62,64843 gradsAsheville-Buncombe Technical Community CollegePEER$62,627102 gradsWilkes Community CollegePEER$61,82029 gradsTri-County Community CollegePEER$59,45621 gradsRoanoke-Chowan Community CollegePEER$58,40810 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 →