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Cleveland Community College

Shelby, NC · 7 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

10-year estimate · 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.

There is not enough reported information to classify the payoff reliably.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$37,871Observed earnings · year 5
Maximum annual price for positive 10-year payoff
Includes direct price and earnings forgone while studying. Assumes $45,000 in alternative annual earnings and no wage growth. How we calculate it
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$2,602
Sticker price
Published out-of-state tuition$8,746
Sticker price
Average net price$995
Title IV student average
Cost of attendance$5,565
Tuition + living budget
PRICE SOURCECollege reported · annual amount · federal dataset
COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

Institution details

Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.

Accreditor
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Main award level
Certificates
Campus setting
Town
Admissions
Open admission
Delivery
Campus or mixed delivery
Federal designation
No special designation reported
Sources: College Scorecard June 2026 release and IPEDS 2024 institutional characteristics.
OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

$995Average net price / year
$5,565Cost of attendance
Not availableMedian federal student debt · completer borrowers
Not availablePublished 10-year payment estimate
$37,871Median earnings · year 5 after completion
31.5%Completion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
1,097Student 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.

$0–30k$498
$30–48k$1,600
$48–75k$1,676
$75–110k$3,987
$110k+Not available
LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$37,871
Year 6$30,126
Year 10$33,755
Full-time retention
20.2%
Part-time retention
39.0%
Completion within 200% of normal time
13.5%

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.

34thEarnings percentile
13thCompletion percentile
WHAT STANDS OUT

A faster read on this college

These summaries use only reportable field-and-credential records at this institution. They do not fill privacy-suppressed outcomes.

$38,334Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
$7,131Median federal debt across categories that report debt
0%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$32,277Year 1
$41,985Year 4
$37,871Year 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

PROGRAM PAYOFF SPREAD

The college average is not the whole story.

Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.

1Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Associate's Degree$78,9442Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Associate's Degree$51,6603Criminal Justice and Corrections · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$50,0744Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree$38,3345Business Administration, Management and Operations · Associate's Degree$35,8786Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Associate's Degree$29,5757Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$25,191

Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding

Strongest relative outcomes

Programs that stand out against the same-degree benchmark

This view rewards performance relative to the same field and credential—not simply majors that pay more everywhere.

1Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssociate's Degree · $78,944 reported-2%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt2Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $25,191 reported-4%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt3Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesAssociate's Degree · $38,334 reported-13%vs same-degree national median$7,131federal debt4Criminal Justice and CorrectionsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $50,074 reported-13%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt5Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsAssociate's Degree · $51,660 reported-21%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt6Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and MethodsAssociate's Degree · $29,575 reported-21%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt
BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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Modeled 10-year ROI
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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt2023–24 awards
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssociate's Degree$78,944Not availableNot reported
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsAssociate's Degree$51,660Not availableNot reported
Criminal Justice and CorrectionsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$50,074Not available11
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesAssociate's Degree$38,334$7,131Not reported
Business Administration, Management and OperationsAssociate's Degree$35,878Not availableNot reported
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and MethodsAssociate's Degree$29,575Not availableNot reported
Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$25,191Not available24

Awards use first-major IPEDS completions aggregated to the same four-digit field and credential.

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.