Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians at Porter & Chester Institute
Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Porter & Chester Institute. 31 completers in the most recent 4-year window (41 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $50,674.
What debt costs Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians graduates at Porter & Chester Institute
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 Porter & Chester Institute
3.6%Median federal debt $13,880 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $50,674.
Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians earnings, debt, and completions at Porter & Chester Institute over time
Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.
Estimate the financial outcome of Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians at Porter & Chester Institute
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%.
- Cost per year
- $17,136
- HS-only baseline · CT
- $42,300
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 15
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
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.