-30%
Paine College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Paine College are 30% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $47.3k).
State hub · Georgia · vintage 2025-05
Georgia Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Georgia — 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 Georgia
Top signals rolled up across Georgiainstitutions — 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.
-26%
Beulah Heights University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Beulah Heights University are 25% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.2k vs $47.3k).
14.7%
Beulah Heights University · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 14.7% at Beulah Heights University exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($39.0k debt amortized over 10 years vs $35.2k earnings).
-12%
Atlanta Metropolitan State College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Atlanta Metropolitan State College are 12% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $37.9k).
8.6%
Profile Institute of Barber-Styling · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.6% at Profile Institute of Barber-Styling exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($16.5k debt amortized over 10 years vs $25.6k earnings).
+127%
Morris Brown College · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Morris Brown College rose 127% between 1999 and 2002 ($10.8k → $24.5k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Georgia Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
114
Title-IV main campuses5,098
with published outcomes$38,208
across institutions41.6%
median across institutions392,113
latest historical vintage$7,118
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Georgia 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.
+17%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
36.5% → 42.8%
+115%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
182,089 → 392,113
+196%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,405 → $7,118
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
61 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 61 of 114 Title-IV institutions · Public 50 · Private 36 · For-profit 28
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 60 Georgia cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Albany
- Americus
- Athens
- Atlanta
- Augusta
- Barnesville
- Brunswick
- Carrollton
- Chamblee
- Clarkesville
- Clarkston
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Conyers
- Cumming
- Cuthbert
- Dahlonega
- Dalton
- Decatur
- Demorest
- Douglas
- Duluth
- Evans
- Fort Valley
- Franklin Springs
- Gainesville
- Griffin
- Kennesaw
- Lagrange
- Lawrenceville
- Lilburn
- Lithonia
- Lookout Mountain
- Macon
- Marietta
- Milledgeville
- Morrow
- Mount Berry
- Mount Vernon
- Rome
- Roswell
- Sandersville
- Sandy Springs
- Savannah
- Statesboro
- Stone Mountain
- Swainsboro
- Thomasville
- Tifton
- Toccoa Falls
- Tucker
- Valdosta
- Vidalia
- Waco
- Waleska
- Warner Robins
- Watkinsville
- Waycross
- West Point
- Young Harris
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.