CIP 5009 · Master's Degree · Yale

Music at Yale

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Yale. 121 completers in the most recent 4-year window (124 in the latest year alone).

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
Connecticut CIP-4 median $46,038
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$38,234
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
121
124 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 · 20142017$17,230
$17,230$14,07920142017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019121
1249220142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142017+22%

Music at Yale · debt_median rose

14,079 → 17,230

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
-$226,857
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$20,900
HS-only baseline · CT
$42,300
Years to complete
6
CIP family
50

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 5009

Music across Connecticut institutions

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

University of HartfordPEER$46,03856 grads
YaleTHIS PROGRAM121 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 →