CIP 1506 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Lone Star College System

Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians at Lone Star College System

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Lone Star College System. 236 completers in the most recent 4-year window (199 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $54,088.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$54,088
Texas CIP-4 median $68,580
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$45,784
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
236
199 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$7,000
$7,000$6,99020142016
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 20142019236
44819920142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
ANNUAL COMPLETERS · 20142019-21%

Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians at Lone Star College System · annual completers fell

448 → 236

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
$419,568
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 2
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 2year 0year 39
Cost per year
$10,373
HS-only baseline · TX
$37,300
Years to complete
1
CIP family
15

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 1506

Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians across Texas institutions

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

Panola CollegePEER$68,58069 grads
Lone Star College SystemTHIS PROGRAM$54,088236 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 →