CIP 5204 · Associate's Degree · Cleveland State Community College

Business Operations Support and Assistant Services at Cleveland State Community College

Federal outcomes for associate's degree graduates of Cleveland State Community College. 13 completers in the most recent 4-year window (9 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $28,690.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$28,690
Tennessee CIP-4 median $31,711
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$25,663
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
13
9 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 · 20142016$10,974
$17,250$10,97420142016
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201913
36920142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142016-36%

Business Operations Support and Assistant Services at Cleveland State Community College · debt_median fell

17,250 → 10,974

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
-$87,814
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$7,867
HS-only baseline · TN
$34,600
Years to complete
2
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 5204

Business Operations Support and Assistant Services across Tennessee institutions

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