CIP 4301 · Bachelor's Degree · Gwynedd Mercy University

Criminal Justice and Corrections at Gwynedd Mercy University

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Gwynedd Mercy University. 17 completers in the most recent 4-year window (12 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $61,212.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$61,212
Pennsylvania CIP-4 median $56,946
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$56,260
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$25,500
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
17
12 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 Gwynedd Mercy University

5.5%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $25,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $61,212.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

6.0%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Pennsylvania CIP 4301 peer-median earnings $56,946.

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$25,500
$27,500$25,50020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201917
26620142019
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
$348,444
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 13
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 13year 0year 39
Cost per year
$25,170
HS-only baseline · PA
$38,100
Years to complete
4
CIP family
43

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.

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