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William James College

⌖ Newton, MA · 2 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

$91,134Observed earnings · year 4

—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 tuitionNot available

Sticker price

Published out-of-state tuitionNot available

Sticker price

Average net priceNot available

Title IV student average

Cost of attendanceNot available

Tuition + living budget

COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

Institution details

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

Accreditor: New England Commission on Higher Education
Main award level: Bachelor’s degrees
Campus setting: City
Admissions: Not reported
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

Not availableAverage net price / year

Not availableCost of attendance

Not availableMedian federal student debt · completer borrowers

Not availablePublished 10-year payment estimate

$91,134Median earnings · year 4 after completion

Not availableCompletion rate

Not availableAdmission rate

39Student 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.

97thEarnings 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.

$72,262Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories

Not availableMedian federal debt across categories that report debt

50%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark

EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$74,282Year 1

$91,134Year 4

Not availableYear 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.

1Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Doctoral Degree$98,466 2Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Master's Degree$72,262

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.

1Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyMaster's Degree · $72,262 reported+11%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt 2Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyDoctoral Degree · $98,466 reported-1%vs same-degree national medianNot availablefederal debt

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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal field	Credential	Earnings, year 4	Federal debt	2023–24 awards
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology	Doctoral Degree	$98,466	Not available	118
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology	Master's Degree	$72,262	Not available	2

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.