CIP 5206 · Bachelor's Degree · UC Irvine

Business/Managerial Economics at UC Irvine

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of UC Irvine. 706 completers in the most recent 4-year window (696 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $74,617.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$74,617
California CIP-4 median $89,309
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$66,614
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$15,000
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
706
696 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 UC Irvine

2.7%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $15,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $74,617.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

2.2%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the California CIP 5206 peer-median earnings $89,309.

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$15,000
$18,000$15,00020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019706
70648320142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
ANNUAL COMPLETERS · 20142019+22%

Business/Managerial Economics at UC Irvine · annual completers rose

483 → 706

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
$606,196
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 7
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 7year 0year 39
Cost per year
$11,769
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
Years to complete
4
CIP family
52

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 5206

Business/Managerial Economics 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 →