-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at DePaul University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.0% → 0.0%).
Illinois · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
DePaul
Chicago, Illinois. 14,283 undergraduate students. 195 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at DePaul
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. Illinois
Each tile compares this institution to the Illinois median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$68,751+26% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$54,695
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry70.0%+18% · '97→'24
Illinois median 53.3%$19,383+132% · '97→'20
At program completion14,283+46% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS86.7%+2% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time73.5%+4% · '01→'24
latest cohort$44,460+189% · '00→'24
out-of-state $44,460SECTION 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
3.8%Median federal debt $19,383 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $68,751 (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.
+48%
DePaul · completion · 100% rose
37.1% → 55.0%
+46%
DePaul · undergrad enrollment rose
9,676 → 14,090
+189%
DePaul · in-state tuition rose
$15,930 → $45,999
+189%
DePaul · out-of-state tuition rose
$15,930 → $45,999
+132%
DePaul · median debt rose
$10,000 → $23,168
-100%
DePaul · cohort default rate fell
4.4% → 0.0%
+21%
DePaul · pell share rose
26.3% → 31.8%
+30%
DePaul · earnings_median_10yr rose
$52,800 → $68,751
+29%
DePaul · earnings_median_8yr rose
$48,200 → $62,341
+30%
DePaul · earnings_median_6yr rose
$42,000 → $54,695
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.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.$145,735Taxation.$141,079Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$136,094Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other.$134,579Computer Programming.$125,642Information Science/Studies.$125,133Human Computer Interaction.$125,108Computer Software and Media Applications.$123,737Computer Engineering.$121,831Human Resources Management and Services.$121,200Applied Mathematics.$110,155Economics.$103,046Accounting and Related Services.$100,063Law.$98,094Business/Managerial Economics.$97,938Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.$96,261Computer Programming.$96,002Management Information Systems and Services.$94,414Mathematics.$92,944Accounting and Related Services.$92,255Finance and Financial Management Services.$91,702Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$88,366Computer and Information Sciences, General.$88,092Information Science/Studies.$87,587
Showing top 24 of 73 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
73 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 10
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
Computer Programming.$96,002Computer Programming.$125,642Computer Software and Media Applications.$123,737Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$136,094Information Science/Studies.$125,133Computer and Information Sciences, General.$88,092Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.$96,261Computer Software and Media Applications.$80,861Information Science/Studies.$87,587Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other.$134,579
EDUCATION · CIP 13
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$60,064Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.$68,230Student Counseling and Personnel Services.$64,635Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$52,867Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.$55,614
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
FOREIGN LANGUAGES · CIP 16
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE · CIP 23
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS · CIP 27
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES · CIP 38
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
Business Administration, Management and Operations.$145,735Finance and Financial Management Services.$91,702Accounting and Related Services.$92,255Marketing.$78,633Business Administration, Management and Operations.$70,634Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.$73,253Accounting and Related Services.$100,063Human Resources Management and Services.$121,200Taxation.$141,079Business/Managerial Economics.$97,938Management Information Systems and Services.$94,414Real Estate.$85,784Hospitality Administration/Management.$51,401
HISTORY · CIP 54
NATURAL RESOURCES & CONSERVATION · CIP 03
AREA, ETHNIC & CULTURAL STUDIES · CIP 05
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at DePaul
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
$1,648,895
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 8
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $26,576
- HS-only baseline · IL
- $38,300
- Years to complete
- 6
- CIP family
- 52
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 Illinois
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“DePaul graduates earn $X” — not “DePaul makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending DePaul 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.