CIP 4228 · Doctoral Degree · Fielding Graduate University

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Fielding Graduate University

Federal outcomes for doctoral degree graduates of Fielding Graduate University. 74 completers in the most recent 4-year window (55 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $105,190.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$105,190
California CIP-4 median $108,557
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$95,075
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$182,333
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
74
55 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 Fielding Graduate University

23.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $182,333 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $105,190.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

22.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the California CIP 4228 peer-median earnings $108,557.

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$182,333
$201,427$166,86020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201974
744720142019
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%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Doctoral Degree at Fielding Graduate University(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

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 4228

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology across California institutions

Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all California 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 →