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Highest earning associate's liberal arts programs in Kentucky

Kentucky liberal arts programs, ranked by median earnings one year after completion, from the College Scorecard field-of-study file (September 18, 2026). Only programs with at least 30 counted graduates in the earnings sample are shown, and at least 5 programs must qualify for this list to exist.

Rank	School	City	Sector	Median earnings, 1 year after	Graduates counted
1	Jefferson Community and Technical College	Louisville	Public, 2-year	$36,623	331
2	Gateway Community and Technical College	Florence	Public, 2-year	$36,311	61
3	Bluegrass Community and Technical College	Lexington	Public, 2-year	$30,467	273
4	Henderson Community College	Henderson	Public, 2-year	$30,204	54
5	Elizabethtown Community and Technical College	Elizabethtown	Public, 2-year	$28,792	159
6	Hopkinsville Community College	Hopkinsville	Public, 2-year	$27,978	83
7	Hazard Community and Technical College	Hazard	Public, 2-year	$27,569	79
8	Maysville Community and Technical College	Maysville	Public, 2-year	$27,342	97
9	Ashland Community and Technical College	Ashland	Public, 2-year	$27,263	73
10	Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College	Bowling Green	Public, 2-year	$27,263	159
11	West Kentucky Community and Technical College	Paducah	Public, 2-year	$26,590	116
12	Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College	Cumberland	Public, 2-year	$26,182	110
13	Owensboro Community and Technical College	Owensboro	Public, 2-year	$26,002	139
14	Somerset Community College	Somerset	Public, 2-year	$24,279	159
15	Madisonville Community College	Madisonville	Public, 2-year	$24,019	54
16	Big Sandy Community and Technical College	Prestonsburg	Public, 2-year	$22,504	85

Earnings cover federally aided graduates only, as published by College Scorecard.

How to read this. A smaller program can show a high or low figure from just a few graduates, and this earnings figure only ever covers students who received federal aid, so it does not describe every graduate.

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