CIP 5110 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Blue Cliff College-Metairie

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at Blue Cliff College-Metairie

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Blue Cliff College-Metairie. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $28,278.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$28,278
Louisiana CIP-4 median $30,420
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$25,671
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$13,910
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
IPEDS award counts
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 Blue Cliff College-Metairie

6.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $13,910 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $28,278.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

6.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Louisiana CIP 5110 peer-median earnings $30,420.

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$13,910
$13,910$13,91020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 201420170
58020142017
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
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
-$80,451
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$24,153
HS-only baseline · LA
$32,800
Years to complete
1
CIP family
51

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 5110

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions across Louisiana institutions

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