-29%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Pickens Technical College fell 29% between 2006 and 2009 (93.6% → 66.2%).
Colorado · Public · Predominantly certificates
Pickens Technical College
Aurora, Colorado. 646 undergraduate students. 25 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Pickens Technical 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.
+13%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Pickens Technical College rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 (609 → 686).
-25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 25% at Pickens Technical College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (646 vs 861).
-20pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 20 pp at Pickens Technical College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (58.2% vs 78.3%).
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.
$39,210+9% · 6→10y
Colorado median $43,242$36,111
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry58.2%+25% · '97→'09
Colorado median 55.5%—
At program completion646-12% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS55.5%-12% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,930+195% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,330SECTION 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.
+25%
Pickens Technical College · completion · 150% rose
52.9% → 66.2%
-12%
Pickens Technical College · retention fell
76.0% → 67.2%
+195%
Pickens Technical College · in-state tuition rose
$1,740 → $5,140
+166%
Pickens Technical College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,480 → $9,250
+38%
Pickens Technical College · pell share rose
22.4% → 31.0%
+49%
Pickens Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$26,300 → $39,210
+48%
Pickens Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$23,000 → $33,993
+39%
Pickens Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,000 → $36,111
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Pickens Technical College
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$357,264
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $10,150
- HS-only baseline · CO
- $40,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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
“Pickens Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Pickens Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Pickens Technical 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.