

This tool displays median cumulative debt amounts of students who completed their degree programs in the academic year 2011-12 and borrowed toward their education.ĭebt figures are displayed by degree type and field of study, to which NPSAS respondents completed during academic year 2011-12. Users of this tool are encouraged to inquire about the availability of recent information about debt and/or salaries for recent graduates, as well as their career pathways for the institution and/or program you are attending or considering. NOTE: Please consider that factors influencing your actual salary may depend upon a variety of factors including but not limited to: labor market conditions by sector and geographical region, your skills and prior work experience, and the reputation of your institution and program.

CGS made custom data requests to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF, to retrieve NSCG:10 data. NPSAS:12 data were retrieved from NCES’s PowerStats, a publicly available online portal that allows researchers to build custom data tables. The two national databases are: the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), which is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF).įor this iteration of the tool, CGS employed the 2011-12 version of NPSAS (NPSAS:12) and 2009-10 version of NSCG (NSCG:10), the most current data available. This debt-to-salary tool draws information from two national databases to display median debt and salary figures based on your selections of degree-level, field of study, and occupational area.
