CIP 5117 · First Professional Degree · New England College of Optometry

Optometry at New England College of Optometry

Federal outcomes for first professional degree graduates of New England College of Optometry. 137 completers in the most recent 4-year window (139 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $127,568.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$127,568
Massachusetts CIP-4 median $127,012
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$104,547
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
137
139 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$40,500
$63,040$40,50020142017
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019137
14312120142019
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%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Optometry · First Professional Degree at New England College of Optometry(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 5117

Optometry across Massachusetts institutions

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

New England College of OptometryTHIS PROGRAM$127,568137 grads
MCPHS UniversityPEER$127,01253 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 →