10-YEAR PAYOFF CURVECumulative economic payoff after graduation
−$89,236at year 10Net gainInvestment not yet recovered
NET GAIN$0UNRECOVERED
Scripps College
⌖ Claremont, CA · 0 reportable field-and-credential outcomes
10-year estimate · Negative payoff
−$89,236 over 10 years
Modeled from observed year-5 institution earnings and the institution-wide average net price over four years.
With these assumptions, the added earnings do not recover the cost within ten years.
13.8 yrsModeled economic break-even
−27%Modeled 10-year ROI
$68,594Observed earnings · year 5
$13,985Maximum annual price for positive 10-year payoff
The price benchmark would need to fall by $22,309 per year to reach it.
Includes direct price and earnings forgone while studying. Assumes $45,000 in alternative annual earnings and no wage growth. How we calculate itECONOMIC INVESTMENT → PAYBACK
Estimated payoff over ten years.
The scenario counts direct price and earnings forgone upfront, then applies the reported annual earnings premium.
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
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Colleges and University Commission
- Main award level
- Bachelor’s degrees
- Campus setting
- Suburban
- Admissions
- Selective admission
- Delivery
- Campus or mixed delivery
- Federal designation
- No special designation reported
Cost, debt, completion and earnings context
$36,294Average net price / year
$87,564Cost of attendance
$13,500Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$143/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$68,594Median earnings · year 5 after completion
82.5%Completion rate
38.3%Admission rate
1,113Student 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.
EARNINGS PATH
Reported earnings over time
$37,612Year 1
$75,301Year 4
$68,594Year 5
Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.
Comparable colleges in CA
Currently operating private nonprofit institutions with the closest combination of annual net price and observed year-5 earnings. Similarity is descriptive—not a quality ranking.
Burbank, CA
Woodbury University
- Annual net price
- $33,692
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $66,933
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -30%
Pacific Union College
- Annual net price
- $41,008
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $68,000
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -33%
Occidental College
- Annual net price
- $38,263
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $64,966
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -40%
University of Redlands
- Annual net price
- $30,031
- Observed earnings · year 5
- $69,744
- Modeled 10-year ROI
- -18%
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.