CIP 4228 · Doctoral Degree · Pacifica Graduate Institute

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute

Federal outcomes for doctoral degree graduates of Pacifica Graduate Institute. 17 completers in the most recent 4-year window (23 in the latest year alone).

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
California CIP-4 median $105,190
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$55,070
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$220,842
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
17
23 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 · 20142018$220,842
$220,842$145,21120142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201917
351520142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+52%

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute · debt_median rose

145,211 → 220,842

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 Pacifica Graduate Institute(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 →