CIP 5004 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Mesa Community College

Design and Applied Arts at Mesa Community College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Mesa Community College. 15 completers in the most recent 4-year window (21 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $38,909.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$38,909
Arizona CIP-4 median $36,096
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$39,240
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
15
21 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 · 2014201915
371520142019
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
$10,105
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 24
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 24year 0year 39
Cost per year
$14,755
HS-only baseline · AZ
$36,200
Years to complete
1
CIP family
50

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 5004

Design and Applied Arts across Arizona institutions

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

Mesa Community CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$38,90915 grads
Sessions College for Professional DesignPEER$36,09651 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 →