CIP 4706 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Pickens Technical College

Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies at Pickens Technical College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Pickens Technical College. 79 completers in the most recent 4-year window (196 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $31,741.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$31,741
Colorado CIP-4 median $36,772
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$39,968
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
79
196 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 · 2014201979
2217920142019
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
-$134,256
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$10,150
HS-only baseline · CO
$40,100
Years to complete
1
CIP family
47

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 4706

Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies across Colorado institutions

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

Trinidad State CollegePEER$36,77265 grads
Pickens Technical CollegeTHIS PROGRAM$31,74179 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 →