CIP 5208 · Bachelor's Degree · North Central College

Finance and Financial Management Services at North Central College

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of North Central College. 30 completers in the most recent 4-year window (39 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $83,703.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$83,703
Illinois CIP-4 median $81,681
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$71,590
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$27,000
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
30
39 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

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 North Central College

4.3%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $27,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $83,703.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

4.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Illinois CIP 5208 peer-median earnings $81,681.

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$27,000
$27,000$20,62520142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201930
403020142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+31%

Finance and Financial Management Services at North Central College · debt_median rose

20,625 → 27,000

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
$816,789
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 7
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 7year 0year 39
Cost per year
$18,725
HS-only baseline · IL
$38,300
Years to complete
4
CIP family
52

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

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 →