CIP 5401 · Bachelor's Degree · Yale

History at Yale

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Yale. 100 completers in the most recent 4-year window (108 in the latest year alone).

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
Connecticut CIP-4 median $52,974
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$77,988
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$8,250
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
100
108 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 · 20142018$8,250
$12,000$8,25020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019100
15110020142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-25%

History at Yale · debt_median fell

11,000 → 8,250

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
$675,859
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 8
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 8year 0year 39
Cost per year
$20,900
HS-only baseline · CT
$42,300
Years to complete
4
CIP family
54

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 5401

History across Connecticut institutions

Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all Connecticut 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 →