Red Rocks Community College Diagnostic and Treatment Professions (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
- Public college
- Lakewood, CO
- About 207 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Red Rocks Community College diagnostic and treatment professions graduates earn more than graduates of most diagnostic and treatment professions programs nationally, $104,021 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $22,170 in federal loans, more than at 89% of diagnostic and treatment professions programs in the country. It is one of the higher-paying diagnostic and treatment professions programs in Colorado.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Colorado and national columns are the medians across all diagnostic and treatment professions certificate programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Red Rocks Community College graduates earn more than the national figure and about $48,884 more than the Colorado median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Colorado diagnostic and treatment professions program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Colorado medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay falls about 4% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $235 a month, or 2.7% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
69% of graduates (31 of 45) were working in Colorado one year after graduating. Prices in the Denver area are about 6% above the national average, so a $104,021 salary here buys what about $98,335 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to diagnostic and treatment professions, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
$87,760Median pay in Colorado. 3,960 people work in this job in Colorado. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: associate's degree.
Emergency Medical Technicians
$45,750Median pay in Colorado. 3,060 people work in this job in Colorado. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: postsecondary nondegree award.
Physician Assistants
$134,540Median pay in Colorado. 3,270 people work in this job in Colorado. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 21% from 2025 to 2035, with about 11,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
Respiratory Therapists
$86,220Median pay in Colorado. 2,110 people work in this job in Colorado. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 9% from 2025 to 2035, with about 8,600 openings a year. Typical education to start: associate's degree.
About Red Rocks Community College
Diagnostic and Treatment Professions ranks 1st of 2 certificate programs at Red Rocks Community College by first-year earnings. The other is Criminal Justice ($72,583).
Other diagnostic and treatment professions certificate programs near Lakewood
Common questions
The median graduate earns $104,021 one year after graduating and $100,340 five years after. The median across diagnostic and treatment professions certificate programs in Colorado is $49,647.
The median federal loan balance is $22,170, which ranks 7th lowest of 8 diagnostic and treatment professions certificate programs in Colorado. That works out to about $235 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 21% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 28%.
Most do. 69% (31 of 45) were working in Colorado one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Colorado comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the diagnostic and treatment professions program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024