-43%
Gallaudet University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Gallaudet University are 43% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($43.1k vs $75.3k).
State hub · District of Columbia · vintage 2025-05
District of Columbia Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in District of Columbia — 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 District of Columbia
Top signals rolled up across District of Columbiainstitutions — 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.
+97%
National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts rose 97% between 2008 and 2009 ($7.5k → $14.8k).
-88%
University of the Potomac-Washington DC Campus · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at University of the Potomac-Washington DC Campus fell 88% between 2021 and 2024 (75.0% → 9.1%).
-58%
Strayer University-District of Columbia · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Strayer University-District of Columbia fell 58% between 2021 and 2024 (368 → 156).
-56%
National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts · First-year retention
First-year retention at National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts fell 56% between 2019 and 2022 (75.0% → 33.3%).
-53%
University of the Potomac-Washington DC Campus · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at University of the Potomac-Washington DC Campus fell 53% between 2021 and 2024 (70.8% → 33.3%).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across District of Columbia Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
18
Title-IV main campuses1,276
with published outcomes$49,020
across institutions55.8%
median across institutions46,381
latest historical vintage$23,132
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How District of Columbia 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.
+23%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
37,675 → 46,381
+91%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$12,093 → $23,132
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
7 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 7 of 18 Title-IV institutions · Public 1 · Private 12 · For-profit 5
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 1 District of Columbia city 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.