CIP 2313 · Bachelor's Degree · Utah State

Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at Utah State

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Utah State. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $69,865.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$69,865
Utah CIP-4 median $46,871
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$46,995
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$19,750
$19,750$11,00020142017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 201420160
48020142016
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142017+49%

Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies at Utah State · debt_median rose

13,250 → 19,750

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
$509,596
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 6
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 6year 0year 39
Cost per year
$11,599
HS-only baseline · UT
$38,000
Years to complete
4
CIP family
23

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 2313

Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies across Utah institutions

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

Utah StateTHIS PROGRAM$69,865
Weber State UniversityPEER$46,87138 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 →