CIP 5210 · Master's Degree · OU

Human Resources Management and Services at OU

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of OU. 126 completers in the most recent 4-year window (235 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $61,030.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$61,030
Oklahoma CIP-4 median $71,688
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$57,011
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$43,760
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
126
235 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 OU

9.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $43,760 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $61,030.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

8.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Oklahoma CIP 5210 peer-median earnings $71,688.

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$43,760
$43,760$25,70020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019126
29512620142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+32%

Human Resources Management and Services at OU · debt_median rose

33,214 → 43,760

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
$363,304
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 14
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 14year 0year 39
Cost per year
$17,551
HS-only baseline · OK
$33,800
Years to complete
6
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.

PEER COMPARISON · CIP 5210

Human Resources Management and Services across Oklahoma institutions

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