Physical Science Technologies/Technicians
2,652 students earn a physical science technologies/technicians credential each year across 65 US colleges. Earnings below are the median for each school's graduates one and five years after finishing; debt is the median federal loan balance at completion.
- Typical earnings, 1 year out
- $52,336
- Typical earnings, 5 years out
- $87,629
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Associate programs — 49 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1San Jacinto Community CollegePasadena, Texas193$59,4961 year out$87,629$10,0002Lamar Institute of TechnologyBeaumont, Texas96$42,5391 year out$110,839$15,5003Brazosport CollegeLake Jackson, Texas89—1 year out$148,522—4Del Mar CollegeCorpus Christi, Texas83$56,9481 year out$110,976$7,0005Lee CollegeBaytown, Texas79$94,9861 year out$122,708$9,5986College of the MainlandTexas City, Texas72$49,6941 year out$133,394$10,5007Weber State UniversityOgden, Utah56$51,3841 year out—$22,4428Lone Star College SystemThe Woodlands, Texas46$53,9761 year out——9Kilgore CollegeKilgore, Texas44$68,3351 year out$59,154$17,20810Houston City CollegeHouston, Texas39$60,6121 year out$63,218$21,74011Lamar State College-Port ArthurPort Arthur, Texas36—1 year out$52,336—12Wharton County Junior CollegeWharton, Texas36$45,2771 year out$122,746$16,62513Lamar State College-OrangeOrange, Texas33$49,9321 year out$103,271$12,00014Alvin Community CollegeAlvin, Texas30$54,5431 year out$119,471$7,83915Purdue University Fort WayneFort Wayne, Indiana25—1 year out——16Seminole State College of FloridaSanford, Florida23—1 year out—$10,87517Victoria CollegeVictoria, Texas22—1 year out$62,071—18CUNY New York City College of TechnologyBrooklyn, New York17—1 year out——19Texas State Technical CollegeWaco, Texas16$42,7691 year out—$11,95920Florida SouthWestern State CollegeFort Myers, Florida14—1 year out——21Ashland Community and Technical CollegeAshland, Kentucky11$61,5391 year out$64,518$10,86722Eastern Florida State CollegeMelbourne, Florida8—1 year out$44,840—23SOWELA Technical Community CollegeLake Charles, Louisiana8—1 year out——24BridgeValley Community & Technical CollegeSouth Charleston, West Virginia8—1 year out——25Delta CollegeUniversity Center, Michigan7—1 year out$60,710—26Northern Essex Community CollegeHaverhill, Massachusetts6—1 year out——27Community College of Rhode IslandWarwick, Rhode Island6—1 year out——28Bellingham Technical CollegeBellingham, Washington6—1 year out——29Jefferson Community and Technical CollegeLouisville, Kentucky5—1 year out——30Ferris State UniversityBig Rapids, Michigan5—1 year out——31Lehigh Carbon Community CollegeSchnecksville, Pennsylvania5—1 year out——32University of Puerto Rico-HumacaoHumacao, Puerto Rico5—1 year out——33Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeKalamazoo, Michigan4—1 year out——34Bucks County Community CollegeNewtown, Pennsylvania4—1 year out——35Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de ManatiManati, Puerto Rico4—1 year out——36South Arkansas CollegeEl Dorado, Arkansas2—1 year out——37Mt San Antonio CollegeWalnut, California2—1 year out——38Delaware Technical Community College-TerryDover, Delaware2—1 year out——39Valencia CollegeOrlando, Florida2—1 year out——40Northern New Mexico CollegeEspanola, New Mexico2—1 year out——41SUNY Corning Community CollegeCorning, New York2—1 year out——42Cape Fear Community CollegeWilmington, North Carolina2—1 year out——43Cincinnati State Technical and Community CollegeCincinnati, Ohio2—1 year out——44Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeMilwaukee, Wisconsin2—1 year out——45East Los Angeles CollegeMonterey Park, California1—1 year out——46Berkeley City CollegeBerkeley, California1—1 year out——47Augusta Technical CollegeAugusta, Georgia1—1 year out——48City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman CollegeChicago, Illinois1—1 year out——49Ivy Tech Community CollegeIndianapolis, Indiana1—1 year out——
Certificate programs — 40 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1Eastern Florida State CollegeMelbourne, Florida280—1 year out——2Brazosport CollegeLake Jackson, Texas268—1 year out——3San Jacinto Community CollegePasadena, Texas192—1 year out$78,928—4Florida State College at JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida103$47,8201 year out—$15,7505Lee CollegeBaytown, Texas102—1 year out——6Lake-Sumter State CollegeLeesburg, Florida83—1 year out——7Victoria CollegeVictoria, Texas50—1 year out——8Alvin Community CollegeAlvin, Texas49$52,3361 year out—$7,7629Lamar State College-OrangeOrange, Texas47—1 year out——10Lamar State College-Port ArthurPort Arthur, Texas41—1 year out——11Sacramento City CollegeSacramento, California35—1 year out——12Lone Star College SystemThe Woodlands, Texas34—1 year out——13Ashland Community and Technical CollegeAshland, Kentucky31—1 year out——14SOWELA Technical Community CollegeLake Charles, Louisiana25—1 year out——15College of Central FloridaOcala, Florida23—1 year out——16Del Mar CollegeCorpus Christi, Texas19—1 year out——17Kansas City Kansas Community CollegeKansas City, Kansas18—1 year out——18State College of Florida-Manatee-SarasotaBradenton, Florida16—1 year out——19Chattanooga State Community CollegeChattanooga, Tennessee12—1 year out——20Maysville Community and Technical CollegeMaysville, Kentucky8—1 year out——21Houston City CollegeHouston, Texas8—1 year out——22Northeast State Community CollegeBlountville, Tennessee6—1 year out——23Bellingham Technical CollegeBellingham, Washington6—1 year out——24Florida SouthWestern State CollegeFort Myers, Florida5—1 year out——25Jefferson Community and Technical CollegeLouisville, Kentucky5—1 year out——26University of South AlabamaMobile, Alabama4—1 year out——27Lamar Institute of TechnologyBeaumont, Texas3—1 year out——28Berkeley City CollegeBerkeley, California2—1 year out——29Ivy Tech Community CollegeIndianapolis, Indiana2—1 year out——30Ferris State UniversityBig Rapids, Michigan2—1 year out——31South Arkansas CollegeEl Dorado, Arkansas1—1 year out——32Fresno City CollegeFresno, California1—1 year out——33Broward CollegeFort Lauderdale, Florida1—1 year out——34Missouri Southern State UniversityJoplin, Missouri1—1 year out——35Cape Fear Community CollegeWilmington, North Carolina1—1 year out——36Lakeland Community CollegeKirtland, Ohio1—1 year out——37Community College of Rhode IslandWarwick, Rhode Island1—1 year out——38Walla Walla Community CollegeWalla Walla, Washington1—1 year out——39BridgeValley Community & Technical CollegeSouth Charleston, West Virginia1—1 year out——40Washington County Career Center-Adult Technical TrainingMarietta, Ohio—$33,3591 year out$57,703—
US Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data (4-digit CIP). Graduates are conferrals in the most recent IPEDS year; earnings cover federally-aided completers who are working and not enrolled; medians for small programs are privacy-suppressed (—).