-31%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at American Institute-West Hartford are 31% below the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($28.7k vs $41.6k).
Connecticut · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
American Institute-West Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut. 396 undergraduate students. 8 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at American Institute-West Hartford
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at American Institute-West Hartford fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.5% → 0.0%).
+32%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at American Institute-West Hartford rose 32% between 2017 and 2020 ($9.1k → $12.0k).
-7pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 7 pp at American Institute-West Hartford vs the 2003–2007 baseline (56.3% vs 63.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Connecticut
Each tile compares this institution to the Connecticut median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$28,710+12% · 6→10y
Connecticut median $57,515$25,543
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry56.3%-6% · '97→'09
Connecticut median 70.2%$9,304+81% · '97→'20
At program completion396+256% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS75.3%-26% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—-35% · '02→'07
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
4.3%Median federal debt $9,304 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $28,710 (10y after entry).
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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-26%
American Institute-West Hartford · retention fell
81.0% → 60.0%
+145%
American Institute-West Hartford · undergrad enrollment rose
113 → 402
+81%
American Institute-West Hartford · median debt rose
$6,625 → $11,979
-100%
American Institute-West Hartford · cohort default rate fell
22.4% → 0.0%
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.
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$62,549Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$31,678Health and Medical Administrative Services.$31,595Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$29,735Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$28,783Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services.$22,291
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
6 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at American Institute-West Hartford
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
-$239,715
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $19,086
- HS-only baseline · CT
- $42,300
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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 Connecticut
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“American Institute-West Hartford graduates earn $X” — not “American Institute-West Hartford makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending American Institute-West Hartford 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.