Program Payoff

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina. 7 certificate and associate programs, public. 7 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in North Carolina.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Undergraduate certificate not published $141,160
Managers, All Other
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies Undergraduate certificate not published $50,030
Interpreters and Translators
Finance and Financial Management Services Undergraduate certificate not published $101,950
General and Operations Managers
History Undergraduate certificate not published $57,650
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians Undergraduate certificate not published $50,590
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
Music Undergraduate certificate not published $57,650
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Special Education and Teaching Undergraduate certificate not published $56,770
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

"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.