CIP 1001 · Master's Degree · University of Houston-Clear Lake

Communications Technology/Technician at University of Houston-Clear Lake

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of University of Houston-Clear Lake. 9 completers in the most recent 4-year window (9 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $64,303.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$64,303
Statewide peers reporting · 0
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$53,690
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
9
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 · 20142015$41,000
$41,000$30,39620142015
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 201420199
25620142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142015+35%

Communications Technology/Technician at University of Houston-Clear Lake · debt_median rose

30,396 → 41,000

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
$379,997
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 11
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 11year 0year 39
Cost per year
$9,994
HS-only baseline · TX
$37,300
Years to complete
6
CIP family
10

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

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 →