Accounting and Computer Science at Lone Star College System
Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Lone Star College System. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $46,602.
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%.
- Cost per year
- $10,373
- HS-only baseline · TX
- $37,300
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 30
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
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.