-56%
Naropa University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Naropa University are 56% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($28.7k vs $65.2k).
State hub · Colorado · vintage 2025-05
Colorado Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Colorado — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Colorado
Top signals rolled up across Coloradoinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-36%
Nazarene Bible College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Nazarene Bible College are 36% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($41.5k vs $65.2k).
+273%
Platt College-Aurora · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Platt College-Aurora rose 273% between 2006 and 2009 ($9.6k → $35.9k).
-100%
Taft University System · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Taft University System fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3 → 0).
-84%
Platt College-Aurora · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Platt College-Aurora fell 84% between 2006 and 2009 (47.1% → 7.7%).
-82%
Tuana European Beauty Academy · First-year retention
First-year retention at Tuana European Beauty Academy fell 82% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 18.2%).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Colorado Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
75
Title-IV main campuses2,919
with published outcomes$43,242
across institutions55.5%
median across institutions253,306
latest historical vintage$10,054
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Colorado has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+53%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
165,116 → 253,306
+360%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,186 → $10,054
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
33 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 33 of 75 Title-IV institutions · Public 32 · Private 12 · For-profit 31
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 28 Colorado cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.