CIP 2401 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Rappahannock Community College

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Rappahannock Community College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Rappahannock Community College. 255 completers in the most recent 4-year window (282 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $39,864.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$39,864
Virginia CIP-4 median $39,908
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$31,880
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
255
282 most recent year
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.

COMPLETERS · 20142019255
29420420142019
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
$55,674
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 22
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 22year 0year 39
Cost per year
$6,777
HS-only baseline · VA
$39,800
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.

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 →