Undergraduate certificate · Salinas, California
Is Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Hartnell College worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Earnings are reported, but there isn't enough cost data to estimate payback.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $37,942
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $50,573
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $11k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 39%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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The school doesn't report a net price for this income band.
No cost figure is reported, so payback and net return can't be computed.
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