CIP 5203 · Bachelor's Degree · Albright College

Accounting and Related Services at Albright College

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Albright College. 24 completers in the most recent 4-year window (30 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $76,251.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$76,251
Pennsylvania CIP-4 median $73,187
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$63,787
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$25,000
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
24
30 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 Albright College

4.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $25,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $76,251.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

4.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Pennsylvania CIP 5203 peer-median earnings $73,187.

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$25,000
$27,000$25,00020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201924
521620142019
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
$667,220
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 8
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 8year 0year 39
Cost per year
$22,071
HS-only baseline · PA
$38,100
Years to complete
4
CIP family
52

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 5203

Accounting and Related Services across Pennsylvania institutions

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

Bucknell UniversityPEER$121,82679 gradsLehigh UniversityPEER$118,28673 gradsVillanovaPEER$114,80193 gradsUniversity of ScrantonPEER$100,59176 gradsSaint Joseph's UniversityPEER$99,81575 gradsMuhlenberg CollegePEER$92,56519 gradsDrexelPEER$90,655256 gradsWest Chester University of PennsylvaniaPEER$88,795139 gradsWilkes UniversityPEER$85,79217 gradsPittPEER$85,705127 gradsSusquehanna UniversityPEER$81,58524 gradsGeneva CollegePEER$80,70210 gradsMessiah UniversityPEER$80,55521 gradsWidener UniversityPEER$80,50032 gradsMercyhurst UniversityPEER$80,29311 gradsLa Salle UniversityPEER$79,68054 gradsTemplePEER$78,957197 gradsWashington & Jefferson CollegePEER$78,64011 grads
Albright CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$76,25124 grads
Elizabethtown CollegePEER$76,2098 gradsNeumann UniversityPEER$75,02714 gradsDuquesne UniversityPEER$74,34367 gradsDeSales UniversityPEER$74,16136 gradsSaint Vincent CollegePEER$73,61020 gradsEastern UniversityPEER$73,1877 gradsShippensburg University of PennsylvaniaPEER$72,32829 gradsRobert Morris UniversityPEER$71,49065 gradsPeirce CollegePEER$70,3498 gradsLebanon Valley CollegePEER$68,80111 gradsLa Roche UniversityPEER$68,55918 gradsHoly Family UniversityPEER · POOLED$67,5909 gradsWestminster CollegePEER$67,59012 gradsYork College of PennsylvaniaPEER$67,03719 gradsChestnut Hill CollegePEER$66,99415 gradsPoint Park UniversityPEER$66,83018 gradsIndiana University of Pennsylvania-Main CampusPEER$66,27743 gradsArcadia UniversityPEER$66,24613 gradsAlvernia UniversityPEER$66,06721 gradsThiel CollegePEER$65,5738 gradsMarywood UniversityPEER$65,4729 gradsKing's CollegePEER$65,16241 gradsCabrini UniversityPEER$64,6578 gradsCarlow UniversityPEER$64,2499 gradsSeton Hill UniversityPEER$64,03513 gradsSlippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaPEER$59,99831 gradsMisericordia UniversityPEER$56,40918 gradsSaint Francis UniversityPEER$56,35219 gradsKeystone CollegePEER$55,09112 gradsGannon UniversityPEER$50,22017 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 →