-36%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Apex College of Veterinary Technology fell 36% between 2021 and 2024 (42 → 27).
Colorado · Private for-profit · Predominantly associate's
Apex College of Veterinary Technology
Colorado Springs, Colorado. 30 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Apex College of Veterinary Technology
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.
+233%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Apex College of Veterinary Technology rose 233% between 2021 and 2024 (20.0% → 66.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Colorado
Each tile compares this institution to the Colorado median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Colorado median $43,242—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry66.7%
Colorado median 55.5%—
At program completion30-41% · '20→'24
latest IPEDS50.0%+233% · '21→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$13,850+1% · '20→'24
out-of-state $13,850SECTION 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.
+233%
Apex College of Veterinary Technology · retention rose
20.0% → 66.7%
+160%
Apex College of Veterinary Technology · pell share rose
15.4% → 40.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Apex College of Veterinary Technology
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians · Associate's Degree at Apex College of Veterinary Technology(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Colorado
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Apex College of Veterinary Technology graduates earn $X” — not “Apex College of Veterinary Technology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Apex College of Veterinary Technology 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.