-23%
Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University are 23% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($44.3k vs $57.2k).
Florida · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
FAMU
Tallahassee, Florida. 7,516 undergraduate students. 105 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at FAMU
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 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.7% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Florida
Each tile compares this institution to the Florida median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$44,349+23% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$36,153
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry51.9%+20% · '97→'24
Florida median 65.6%$17,855+330% · '97→'20
At program completion7,516-18% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS86.3%+0% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time21.1%-71% · '01→'24
latest cohort$5,785+139% · '00→'24
out-of-state $17,725SECTION 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
5.4%Median federal debt $17,855 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $44,349 (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.
+145%
FAMU · completion · 100% rose
11.7% → 28.6%
+139%
FAMU · in-state tuition rose
$2,422 → $5,785
+82%
FAMU · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,760 → $17,725
+330%
FAMU · median debt rose
$5,476 → $23,548
-100%
FAMU · cohort default rate fell
18.3% → 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.
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$138,295Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$130,224Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$91,473Construction Engineering Technologies.$86,449Business Administration, Management and Operations.$82,689Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$81,928Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$74,860Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$71,065Law.$70,717Architecture.$69,168Computer and Information Sciences, General.$66,418Architecture.$63,313Public Health.$62,213Accounting and Related Services.$61,159Business Administration, Management and Operations.$58,437Biology, General.$55,361Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$52,489Political Science and Government.$51,461Health and Medical Administrative Services.$46,377Social Sciences, General.$45,083Criminal Justice and Corrections.$44,942Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.$44,896Journalism.$44,806Agriculture, General.$42,263
Showing top 24 of 30 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
30 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
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.$44,896Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$130,224Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$91,473Health and Medical Administrative Services.$46,377Public Health.$62,213Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$74,860Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$71,065Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$138,295Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$81,928
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
AGRICULTURE · CIP 01
ARCHITECTURE · CIP 04
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at FAMU
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
$115,352
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 21
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $17,489
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 4
- 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 Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“FAMU graduates earn $X” — not “FAMU makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending FAMU 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.