Southern California Institute of Technology Information Technology (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
- Private for-profit school
- Anaheim, CA
- About 31 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Southern California Institute of Technology information technology graduates earn about what information technology graduates earn nationally, $45,632 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $10,432 in federal loans, close to the national median of $11,543. One other California program reports higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The California and national columns are the medians across all information technology certificate programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Southern California Institute of Technology graduates earn more than the national figure and about the same as the California median.
Debt and first-year pay at every California information technology program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the California 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 rises about 25% 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 $111 a month, or 2.9% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
96% of graduates (25 of 26) were working in California one year after graduating. Prices in the Los Angeles area are about 14% above the national average, so a $45,632 salary here buys what about $40,181 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 information technology, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Project Management Specialists
$120,910Median pay in California. 114,380 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 76,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Computer User Support Specialists
$79,570Median pay in California. 74,490 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to shrink 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 39,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: some college, no degree.
Computer and Information Systems Managers
$218,290Median pay in California. 94,720 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 16% from 2025 to 2035, with about 53,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus 5 years or more of related work experience.
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
$106,440Median pay in California. 26,170 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to shrink 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,400 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Southern California Institute of Technology
Information Technology ranks 2nd of 3 certificate programs at Southern California Institute of Technology by first-year earnings. The others are Electromechanical Technology ($50,793) and Electrician Training ($38,716).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $45,632 one year after graduating and $57,082 five years after. The median across information technology certificate programs in California is $45,517.
The median federal loan balance is $10,432, which ranks 4th lowest of 5 information technology certificate programs in California. That works out to about $111 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 23% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 32%.
Most do. 96% (25 of 26) were working in California 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 California 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 information technology 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