CIP 2401 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · San Diego City College

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at San Diego City College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of San Diego City College. 226 completers in the most recent 4-year window (195 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $39,553.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$39,553
California CIP-4 median $45,862
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$37,781
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
226
195 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$6,750
$6,750$6,12520152017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019226
2262220142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
ANNUAL COMPLETERS · 20142019+20%

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at San Diego City College · annual completers rose

22 → 226

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
$7,155
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 35
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 35year 0year 39
Cost per year
$5,397
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
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 →