Exploring Earning Benefits of Sub-Baccalaureate Credentials

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Abstract

While economic benefits associated with bachelor’s degree attainment are well-documented, less is known about economic returns of sub-baccalaureate credential graduates. Sub-baccalaureate credentials comprise associate degrees and certificates offered at two-year community and technical colleges. Earnings associated with sub-baccalaureate credentials were evaluated by fields of the study. Thus, earning differentials within a field of the study still remain unclear. In a nationally representative sample of 12,369 sub-baccalaureate credential holders, the current study investigated the linkage between earnings and sub-baccalaureate credentials at the academic program level. While the health sciences were previously identified as a gainful field of the study, the results herein indicate that certain health sciences programs showed lower earning power than the median earning of high school graduates.

Author

• Terry T. Ishitani, University of Tennessee