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Central Lakes College-Staples Campus

⌖ Staples, MN · 0 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · Uncertain payoff

Payoff needs your actual price

ROI withheld because the institution-wide price is missing, below the reliability floor or produces an extreme price-sensitive scenario.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

—Modeled economic break-even

Not availableModeled 10-year ROI

$48,864Observed earnings · year 5

Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula

PAYOFF CURVE

Not enough reliable price data to model ROI.

FEDERAL COST DATA

Four ways to read college price.

Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.

Published in-state tuition$6,249

Sticker price

Published out-of-state tuition$6,249

Sticker price

Average net priceNot available

Title IV student average

Cost of attendanceNot available

Tuition + living budget

OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

Not availableAverage net price / year

Not availableCost of attendance

$11,000Median federal student debt · completer borrowers

$117/moPublished 10-year payment estimate

$48,864Median earnings · year 5 after completion

Not availableCompletion rate

Not availableAdmission rate

Not availableStudent size

Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.

PRICE BY FAMILY INCOME

Average net price is not one price

Federal averages for aided students in each family-income band. Your aid offer can differ.

$0–30kNot available

$30–48kNot available

$48–75kNot available

$75–110kNot available

$110k+Not available

LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$48,864

Year 6$39,389

Year 10$42,162

Full-time retention: Not available
Part-time retention: Not available
Completion within 200% of normal time: Not available

Earnings timepoints may use different historical cohorts and should not be read as one group’s guaranteed salary growth.

NATIONAL CONTEXT

How this college compares

Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.

59thEarnings percentile

EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$40,007Year 1

$50,357Year 4

$48,864Year 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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PROGRAM OUTCOMES

No field-level outcomes are currently reportable.

This college remains in the national directory because it appears in the College Scorecard. Program outcomes may be unavailable, privacy-suppressed or outside the reported cohorts.

Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.