CIP 3906 · Master's Degree · Columbia Theological Seminary

Theological and Ministerial Studies at Columbia Theological Seminary

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Columbia Theological Seminary. 56 completers in the most recent 4-year window (49 in the latest year alone).

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
Georgia CIP-4 median $58,016
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$51,742
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$37,354
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
56
49 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 · 20152018$37,354
$38,209$26,50020152018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201956
664020142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20152018+41%

Theological and Ministerial Studies at Columbia Theological Seminary · debt_median rose

26,500 → 37,354

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%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Theological and Ministerial Studies · Master's Degree at Columbia Theological Seminary(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

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 3906

Theological and Ministerial Studies across Georgia institutions

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