CIP 5202 · Bachelor's Degree · Central Penn College

Business Administration, Management and Operations at Central Penn College

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Central Penn College. 66 completers in the most recent 4-year window (84 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $57,807.

SCORECARD FIELDOFSTUDYDATA · CIP 5202 · BACHELOR'S DEGREEPEER SET · 63 PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONS · HISTORY 1996–2024

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y

$57,807

Pennsylvania CIP-4 median $65,101

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y

$52,218

Treasury · 4y post-completion

MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT

$34,720

At program completion

COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW

84 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 Central Penn College

8.0%

0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $34,720 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $57,807.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

7.1%

0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Pennsylvania CIP 5202 peer-median earnings $65,101.

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 · 2014–2018$34,720

Median federal debt at program exit.FoS

COMPLETERS · 2014–201966

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.

Family income

Discount rate · 5.0%

Horizon · 40 years

Apply Dale-Krueger selection shrinkage

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

NET PRESENT VALUE

$346,079

Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%

BREAKEVEN

Year 11

First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero

Cost per year: $14,769
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 5202

Business Administration, Management and Operations across Pennsylvania institutions

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

Carnegie MellonPEER$159,088141 grads PennPEER$116,666149 grads Gettysburg CollegePEER$102,36959 grads PittPEER$102,112143 grads Lehigh UniversityPEER$102,04315 grads VillanovaPEER$91,99729 grads Franklin and Marshall CollegePEER$88,15064 grads Bucknell UniversityPEER$87,85416 grads DrexelPEER$82,99799 grads Muhlenberg CollegePEER$80,99890 grads Immaculata UniversityPEER$79,72122 grads Duquesne UniversityPEER$78,27754 grads University of ScrantonPEER$75,97045 grads Waynesburg UniversityPEER$75,32224 grads Holy Family UniversityPEER$74,96921 grads La Salle UniversityPEER$73,58221 grads Neumann UniversityPEER$72,78118 grads Elizabethtown CollegePEER$71,04158 grads Alvernia UniversityPEER$70,87728 grads Lebanon Valley CollegePEER$70,41044 grads Shippensburg University of PennsylvaniaPEER$70,082125 grads West Chester University of PennsylvaniaPEER$69,376251 grads Saint Joseph's UniversityPEER$68,67428 grads Chestnut Hill CollegePEER$68,65628 grads Eastern UniversityPEER$67,79744 grads Moravian UniversityPEER$67,74571 grads Widener UniversityPEER$67,52714 grads Geneva CollegePEER$66,92143 grads Messiah UniversityPEER$65,50831 grads Wilkes UniversityPEER$65,27948 grads Misericordia UniversityPEER$65,20740 grads Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaPEER$65,101264 grads Albright CollegePEER$65,025100 grads Cabrini UniversityPEER$64,64626 grads Lycoming CollegePEER$64,54424 grads York College of PennsylvaniaPEER$63,70854 grads Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main CampusPEER$63,021105 grads Thomas Jefferson UniversityPEER$62,76825 grads King's CollegePEER$61,93241 grads Mercyhurst UniversityPEER$61,6609 grads East Stroudsburg University of PennsylvaniaPEER$61,51478 grads Saint Vincent CollegePEER$61,48738 grads Millersville University of PennsylvaniaPEER$61,262116 grads Gwynedd Mercy UniversityPEER$61,16350 grads Point Park UniversityPEER$60,49965 grads Robert Morris UniversityPEER$60,48953 grads DeSales UniversityPEER$60,19061 grads Delaware Valley UniversityPEER$59,71558 grads Seton Hill UniversityPEER$59,35324 grads Marywood UniversityPEER$59,31121 grads Peirce CollegePEER$58,69853 grads Slippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaPEER$58,29371 grads Carlow UniversityPEER$58,2643 grads

Central Penn CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$57,80766 grads

Thiel CollegePEER$54,12622 grads Cairn University-LanghornePEER$53,18324 grads Gannon UniversityPEER$53,11022 grads Saint Francis UniversityPEER$52,75930 grads Westminster CollegePEER$52,41029 grads Lincoln UniversityPEER$51,61523 grads Mount Aloysius CollegePEER$51,48539 grads Cheyney University of PennsylvaniaPEER$49,74311 grads Keystone CollegePEER$49,07227 grads Pennsylvania College of TechnologyPEER$47,67749 grads

Business Administration, Management and Operations at Central Penn College

This program at Central Penn College

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

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