-25%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at H W Brewster Technical College are 25% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($27.1k vs $36.0k).
Florida · Public · Predominantly certificates
H W Brewster Technical College
Tampa, Florida. 1,502 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at H W Brewster 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.
-73%
First-year retention
First-year retention at H W Brewster Technical College fell 72% between 2021 and 2024 (8.9% → 2.5%).
-63%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at H W Brewster Technical College fell 63% between 2006 and 2009 (62.1% → 23.0%).
-26pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 26 pp at H W Brewster Technical College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (52.9% vs 78.7%).
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.
$27,053+0% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$26,998
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry52.9%-63% · '99→'09
Florida median 65.6%—
At program completion1,502+71% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS1.8%-96% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
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 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.
-63%
H W Brewster Technical College · completion · 150% fell
62.4% → 23.0%
-96%
H W Brewster Technical College · retention fell
68.0% → 2.5%
+71%
H W Brewster Technical College · undergrad enrollment rose
407 → 695
-92%
H W Brewster Technical College · pell share fell
28.8% → 2.3%
+27%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$21,300 → $27,053
+49%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,900 → $32,574
+40%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$19,300 → $26,998
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at H W Brewster 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at H W Brewster Technical College(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 Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“H W Brewster Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “H W Brewster Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending H W Brewster 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.