+48%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Porterville College rose 48% between 2007 and 2010 ($514 → $762).
California · Public · Predominantly associate's
Porterville College
Porterville, California. 2,775 undergraduate students. 42 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Porterville College
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+63%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Porterville College rose 63% between 2009 and 2010 (3.1% → 5.0%).
+21%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Porterville College rose 21% between 2021 and 2024 ($9.4k → $11.3k).
+62%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Porterville College rose 62% between 2007 and 2010 (2.3k → 3.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$36,328+20% · 6→10y
California median $42,588$30,202
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry29.4%-66% · '97→'10
California median 61.3%—
At program completion2,775+66% · '96→'10
latest IPEDS67.2%+0% · '04→'10
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$1,409+131% · '01→'10
out-of-state $10,289SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
-66%
Porterville College · completion · 150% fell
52.9% → 18.1%
+63%
Porterville College · completion · 100% rose
3.1% → 5.0%
+66%
Porterville College · undergrad enrollment rose
2,217 → 3,683
+43%
Porterville College · in-state tuition rose
$330 → $762
+181%
Porterville College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,020 → $11,308
+35%
Porterville College · pell share rose
33.1% → 44.8%
+29%
Porterville College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,800 → $34,482
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Porterville College graduates earn $X” — not “Porterville College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Porterville College caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.