Private for-profit · COLLEGE PAYOFF

Western Technical College

El Paso, TX · 10 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · 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.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$35,866Observed earnings · year 5
Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula
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
PRICE SOURCECollege reported · annual amount · federal dataset
OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

Not availableAverage net price / year
Not availableCost of attendance
$17,277Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$183/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$35,866Median earnings · year 5 after completion
71.9%Completion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
1,206Student 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.

$0–30kNot available
$30–48kNot available
$48–75kNot available
$75–110kNot available
$110k+Not available
LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$35,866
Year 6$35,035
Year 10$36,156
Full-time retention
84.6%
Part-time retention
100.0%
Completion within 200% of normal time
Not available

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.

30thEarnings percentile
71thCompletion 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.

$45,057Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
$20,000Median federal debt across categories that report debt
10%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$29,134Year 1
$39,357Year 4
$35,866Year 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.

1Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services · Associate's Degree$50,7662Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians · Associate's Degree$47,9033Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians · Associate's Degree$47,3054Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians · Associate's Degree$47,0685Precision Metal Working · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$45,9546Computer and Information Sciences, General · Associate's Degree$45,0577Health and Medical Administrative Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma$31,6808Business Administration, Management and Operations · Associate's Degree$31,572

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

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt
Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesAssociate's Degree$50,766Not available
Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree$47,903$26,208
Environmental Control Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree$47,305$23,276
Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansAssociate's Degree$47,068$20,000
Precision Metal WorkingUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$45,954$17,372
Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralAssociate's Degree$45,057$25,032
Health and Medical Administrative ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$31,680$12,560
Business Administration, Management and OperationsAssociate's Degree$31,572$20,000
Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$31,347$11,466
Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic ServicesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma$19,897$7,914

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.