CIP 5208 · Bachelor's Degree · UH

Finance and Financial Management Services at UH

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of UH. 442 completers in the most recent 4-year window (369 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $80,588.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$80,588
Texas CIP-4 median $75,797
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$68,263
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$15,611
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
442
369 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 UH

2.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $15,611 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $80,588.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

2.7%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Texas CIP 5208 peer-median earnings $75,797.

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$15,611
$20,784$15,42520142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019442
44226120142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-25%

Finance and Financial Management Services at UH · debt_median fell

20,784 → 15,611

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
$798,844
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 6
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 6year 0year 39
Cost per year
$12,613
HS-only baseline · TX
$37,300
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.

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 →