CIP 4701 · Associate's Degree · Western Technical College

Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology at Western Technical College

Federal outcomes for associate's degree graduates of Western Technical College. Median earnings 5 years after completion: $58,911.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$58,911
Texas CIP-4 median $67,350
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$47,262
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$26,009
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
IPEDS award counts
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at Western Technical College

5.9%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $26,009 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $58,911.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

5.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Texas CIP 4701 peer-median earnings $67,350.

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 · 20142018$26,009
$26,009$20,00020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018+30%

Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology at Western Technical College · debt_median rose

20,000 → 26,009

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%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology · Associate's Degree at Western Technical College(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

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 4701

Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology 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 →