Program Payoff

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois. 10 certificate and associate programs, public. 10 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in Illinois.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Air Transportation Associate's degree $20,500 $45,715 (15) $120,250
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services Associate's degree $12,000 $39,369 (11) $46,650
Pharmacy Technicians
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions Associate's degree $17,063 not published $42,260
Emergency Medical Technicians
Accounting and Related Services Undergraduate certificate not published $80,230
Accountants and Auditors
Air Transportation Undergraduate certificate not published $120,250
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services Undergraduate certificate not published $47,990
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Dental Support Services and Allied Professions Associate's degree not published $48,610
Dental Assistants
Design and Applied Arts Associate's degree not published $62,560
Graphic Designers
Funeral Service and Mortuary Science Associate's degree not published $69,600
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
Journalism Undergraduate certificate not published $76,060
Editors

"Graduates earn" is the median two years after completing, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10; the number in brackets is how many graduates it covers. A dash means the Department has not published a figure — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates — and never that the figure is zero. "The occupation pays" is the state median for the occupation the program leads to, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, and describes everyone in that job rather than graduates of this school.