CIP 4228 · Master's Degree · Utah

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Utah

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of Utah. 62 completers in the most recent 4-year window (74 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $65,696.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$65,696
Utah CIP-4 median $62,781
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$59,700
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$26,100
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
62
74 most recent year
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 Utah

5.3%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $26,100 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $65,696.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

5.5%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Utah CIP 4228 peer-median earnings $62,781.

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$26,100
$45,869$26,10020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201962
824720142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-43%

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Utah · debt_median fell

45,869 → 26,100

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
$317,978
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 12
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 12year 0year 39
Cost per year
$12,398
HS-only baseline · UT
$38,000
Years to complete
6
CIP family
42

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 4228

Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology across Utah institutions

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

UtahTHIS PROGRAM$65,69662 grads
Westminster UniversityPEER$62,78110 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 →