CIP 2401 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Florence-Darlington Technical College

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Florence-Darlington Technical College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Florence-Darlington Technical College. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $35,492.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$35,492
South Carolina CIP-4 median $41,897
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$33,456
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
IPEDS award counts
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 · 20142017$13,158
$14,502$13,15820142017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
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
$89,956
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 14
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 14year 0year 39
Cost per year
$1,508
HS-only baseline · SC
$33,700
Years to complete
1
CIP family
24

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 2401

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities across South Carolina institutions

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

Aiken Technical CollegePEER$41,8972 grads
Florence-Darlington Technical CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$35,492
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 →