Michigan Career and Technical Institute
⌖ Plainwell, MI · 6 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
$28,364Observed earnings · year 5
—Maximum annual price for positive 10-year payoff
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.
COLLEGE AT A GLANCE
Institution details
Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.
- Accreditor
- Council on Occupational Education
- Main award level
- Certificates
- Campus setting
- Rural
- Admissions
- Open admission
- Delivery
- Campus or mixed delivery
- Federal designation
- No special designation reported
Cost, debt, completion and earnings context
Not availableAverage net price / year
Not availableCost of attendance
Not availableMedian federal student debt · completer borrowers
Not availablePublished 10-year payment estimate
$28,364Median earnings · year 5 after completion
37.8%Completion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
118Student size
Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.
NATIONAL CONTEXT
How this college compares
Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.
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.
EARNINGS PATH
Reported earnings over time
$22,329Year 1
$30,769Year 4
$28,364Year 5
Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.
The college average is not the whole story.
Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.
1Woodworking · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$39,8062Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$35,5203Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$33,9594Graphic Communications · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$28,3605Culinary Arts and Related Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$28,2296General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$17,071Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding
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.
1Culinary Arts and Related ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $28,229 reported-8%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt2WoodworkingUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $39,806 reported-11%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt3Graphic CommunicationsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $28,360 reported-12%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt4Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $35,520 reported-17%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt5Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and InspectionUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $33,959 reported-19%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt6General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing OperationsUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma · $17,071 reported-67%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt
Comparable colleges in MI
Currently operating public institutions with the closest combination of annual net price and observed year-5 earnings. Similarity is descriptive—not a quality ranking.
Brimley, MI
Bay Mills Community College
- Annual net price
- $3,073
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $38,508
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -134%
West Shore Community College
- Annual net price
- $1,527
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $45,924
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -95%
Kellogg Community College
- Annual net price
- $4,858
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $42,965
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -110%
Schoolcraft Community College District
- Annual net price
- $2,260
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $45,811
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -96%
Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes
| Federal field | Credential | Earnings, year 4 | Federal debt | 2023–24 awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodworking | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $39,806 | Not available | 12 |
| Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $35,520 | Not available | 12 |
| Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $33,959 | Not available | Not reported |
| Graphic Communications | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $28,360 | Not available | 7 |
| Culinary Arts and Related Services | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $28,229 | Not available | 29 |
| General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations | Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma | $17,071 | Not available | Not reported |
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.