CIP 1402 · Bachelor's Degree · Michigan

Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Michigan

Federal outcomes for bachelor's degree graduates of Michigan. 126 completers in the most recent 4-year window (132 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $113,025.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$113,025
Michigan CIP-4 median $100,965
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$97,263
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$21,125
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
126
132 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 Michigan

2.5%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $21,125 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $113,025.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

2.8%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Michigan CIP 1402 peer-median earnings $100,965.

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$21,125
$21,125$17,87520142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019126
1329420142019
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
$1,572,201
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 4
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 4year 0year 39
Cost per year
$8,756
HS-only baseline · MI
$36,900
Years to complete
4
CIP family
14

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 1402

Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering across Michigan institutions

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

MichiganTHIS PROGRAM$113,025126 grads
Western Michigan UniversityPEER$100,96520 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 →