CIP 1101 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · South Texas College

Computer and Information Sciences, General at South Texas College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of South Texas College. 152 completers in the most recent 4-year window (304 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $19,160.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$19,160
Texas CIP-4 median $46,775
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$18,250
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
152
304 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.

COMPLETERS · 20142019152
83715220142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
ANNUAL COMPLETERS · 20142019-69%

Computer and Information Sciences, General at South Texas College · annual completers fell

837 → 152

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
-$297,642
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$3,261
HS-only baseline · TX
$37,300
Years to complete
1
CIP family
11

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 1101

Computer and Information Sciences, General across Texas institutions

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