At Ashland University, the model places graduates at expected earnings, and the median is below the peer median. Azimuth puts its return pillar in the 50th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Graduates earn about $488 more than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. Earnings beyond expectations—the gap between graduate earnings and the model's expectation for similar students—falls in the 56th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $3,239. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $2,751.
Four years after completion, federally aided completers working and not enrolled earn a median of $59,855, in the 51st percentile. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250; the university's median is $8,395 below it.
Ashland University graduates earn near the middle of the national distribution four years after completion. Among federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, median earnings are $59,855 four years after completion.
Azimuth places that earnings measure in the 51st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 1,254 completers. The earnings scenarios, built from the program mix rather than observed groups, describe typical, downside, and upside earnings possibilities.
Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, provides another view. Graduates earn about $488 more than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.
An estimated 28.2% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. The middle-range earnings standing and essentially expected earnings point to a restrained return picture.
At Ashland University, the return figures place graduate earnings near the model’s expectation but below comparable institutions. Four years after completion, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $59,855, in the 51st percentile.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250, with Ashland’s figure $8,395 below it. Graduates earn about $488 more than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.
Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, sits in the 56th percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $3,239.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $2,751. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $951.
Downside and upside earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix are $43,679 and $76,471. Azimuth ranks the university #738 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The model places earnings at its expected level, while the median remains below the peer figure. Nursing is the largest program and has median earnings above the school-level figure.
It awarded 161 degrees and its completers earned $73,222 four years after completion. Accounting awarded 26 degrees and recorded $80,065, or 1.05x of the national median for its field.
Finance had 12 degrees awarded and median earnings of $79,929, equal to 0.96x of its field’s national median. Business Administration and Management awarded 37 degrees, with $68,823 in median earnings and 1.01x of the national field median.
These large and high-earning fields sit on different sides of their field medians.
Ashland University shows substantial field variation: Accounting has median earnings of $80,065 four years after completion, above the upside scenario. The program-mix scenarios range from $43,679 on the downside to $76,471 on the upside, with $59,855 as the typical scenario; they are earnings scenarios, not observed groups.
Finance reaches $79,929 four years after completion, and Nursing reaches $73,222. Those field medians show why a single schoolwide figure does not describe every outcome.
At Ashland University, costs run below comparable institutions, though borrowers who complete carry debt above their peer median. Its average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $21,988.
This is below the peer median of $27,371 at comparable institutions (same type and size), a difference of $5,383. Among federal-loan borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $25,000, which is above the peer median of $24,199 by $801.
That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $284 a month if repaid over ten years. Graduates earn about $488 more than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.
The lower average net price sits alongside debt above peers, while earnings remain effectively at the expected level.