+22%
First-year retention
First-year retention at South Georgia Technical College rose 22% between 2021 and 2024 (63.4% → 77.1%).
Georgia · Public · Predominantly certificates
South Georgia Technical College
Americus, Georgia. 1,302 undergraduate students. 57 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at South Georgia 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.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Georgia
Each tile compares this institution to the Georgia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$30,364+6% · 6→10y
Georgia median $38,208$28,744
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry58.6%+72% · '97→'09
Georgia median 41.6%—
At program completion1,302+55% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS64.8%+45% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,782+283% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,782SECTION 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.
+72%
South Georgia Technical College · completion · 150% rose
22.0% → 37.8%
+45%
South Georgia Technical College · retention rose
53.0% → 77.1%
+55%
South Georgia Technical College · undergrad enrollment rose
906 → 1,407
+283%
South Georgia Technical College · in-state tuition rose
$1,041 → $3,992
+278%
South Georgia Technical College · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,905 → $7,202
+47%
South Georgia Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$20,600 → $30,364
+39%
South Georgia Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,100 → $29,317
+39%
South Georgia Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$20,700 → $28,744
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.
Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Technologies.$82,320Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.$57,068Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies.$48,285Precision Metal Working.$43,035Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$41,998Criminal Justice and Corrections.$39,452Criminal Justice and Corrections.$39,311Ground Transportation.$36,399Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$25,954Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$21,678
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
10 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
EDUCATION · CIP 13
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
CONSTRUCTION TRADES · CIP 46
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
PRECISION PRODUCTION · CIP 48
TRANSPORTATION & MATERIALS MOVING · CIP 49
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at South Georgia 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$327,955
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 2
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $4,146
- HS-only baseline · GA
- $35,800
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 47
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 Georgia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“South Georgia Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “South Georgia Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending South Georgia 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.