-29%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Suncoast Technical College fell 29% between 2021 and 2024 (36.9% → 26.2%).
Florida · Public · Predominantly certificates
Suncoast Technical College
Sarasota, Florida. 1,102 undergraduate students. 30 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Suncoast 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.
+48%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Suncoast Technical College rose 48% between 2006 and 2009 (57.8% → 85.5%).
-25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Suncoast Technical College fell 25% between 2021 and 2024 (1.5k → 1.1k).
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.
$40,621+13% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$36,094
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry51.1%+116% · '97→'09
Florida median 65.6%—
At program completion1,102-31% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS22.2%-74% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'02
latest cohort—+4% · '00→'02
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.
+116%
Suncoast Technical College · completion · 150% rose
39.6% → 85.5%
-74%
Suncoast Technical College · retention fell
100.0% → 26.2%
-31%
Suncoast Technical College · undergrad enrollment fell
1,627 → 1,116
+53%
Suncoast Technical College · pell share rose
7.2% → 11.0%
+27%
Suncoast Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$32,000 → $40,621
+36%
Suncoast Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$27,300 → $37,113
+29%
Suncoast Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$27,900 → $36,094
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Suncoast 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 Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Suncoast 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
“Suncoast Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Suncoast Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Suncoast 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.