-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Miami Dade College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.1% → 0.0%).
Florida · Public · Predominantly associate's
Miami Dade College
Miami, Florida. 35,001 undergraduate students. 114 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Miami Dade 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.
+32%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Miami Dade College rose 32% between 2021 and 2024 (34.7% → 45.9%).
+16%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Miami Dade College rose 16% between 2021 and 2024 (39.7k → 46.2k).
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.
$40,654+23% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$33,107
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry44.7%+96% · '97→'24
Florida median 65.6%$7,500+252% · '97→'20
At program completion35,001+12% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$2,838+90% · '00→'24
out-of-state $9,661SECTION 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
2.5%Median federal debt $7,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $40,654 (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.
+96%
Miami Dade College · completion · 150% rose
23.5% → 45.9%
+1341%
Miami Dade College · retention rose
0.0% → 67.0%
+90%
Miami Dade College · in-state tuition rose
$1,490 → $2,838
+86%
Miami Dade College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,202 → $9,661
+252%
Miami Dade College · median debt rose
$2,626 → $9,252
-100%
Miami Dade College · cohort default rate fell
19.4% → 0.0%
+33%
Miami Dade College · pell share rose
37.4% → 49.7%
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.
Fire Protection.$99,859Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$94,635Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$71,373Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$66,950Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$55,801Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$54,496Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$54,158Criminal Justice and Corrections.$50,008Business Administration, Management and Operations.$47,594Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$44,983Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$42,435Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.$41,040Business Administration, Management and Operations.$36,539Business Administration, Management and Operations.$32,805Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.$28,852
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
15 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
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES · CIP 19
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$94,635Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$55,801Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$71,373Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$54,158Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$44,983Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$66,950
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Miami Dade 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
$168,984
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 11
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $8,830
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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
“Miami Dade College graduates earn $X” — not “Miami Dade College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Miami Dade 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.