CIP 2605 · Bachelor's Degree · UW-Milwaukee

Microbiological Sciences and Immunology at UW-Milwaukee

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of UW-Milwaukee. 6 completers in the most recent 4-year window (15 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $63,276.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$63,276
Wisconsin CIP-4 median $65,144
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
6
15 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.

DEBT · 20152017$28,000
$28,000$21,50020152017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 201420196
19520142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20152017+30%

Microbiological Sciences and Immunology at UW-Milwaukee · debt_median rose

21,500 → 28,000

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
$427,559
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 9
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 9year 0year 39
Cost per year
$15,762
HS-only baseline · WI
$37,100
Years to complete
4
CIP family
26

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 2605

Microbiological Sciences and Immunology across Wisconsin institutions

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

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 →