-95%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Midwestern University-Downers Grove fell 95% between 2003 and 2006 (57 → 3).
Illinois · Private nonprofit · Predominantly graduate
Midwestern University-Downers Grove
Downers Grove, Illinois. 20 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Midwestern University-Downers Grove
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%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Midwestern University-Downers Grove fell 32% between 2006 and 2009 ($21.0k → $14.2k).
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.
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Illinois median $40,810—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Illinois median 53.3%—-32% · '97→'09
At program completion—-99% · '96→'06
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-99%
Midwestern University-Downers Grove · undergrad enrollment fell
455 → 3
-32%
Midwestern University-Downers Grove · median debt fell
$21,000 → $14,230
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.
Medicine.$226,326Dentistry.$157,252Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$144,878Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$131,334Optometry.$121,814Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$83,693Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$76,926Biology, General.$62,793Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.$54,979
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
9 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$131,334Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.$54,979Dentistry.$157,252Medicine.$226,326Optometry.$121,814Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$144,878Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$76,926Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$83,693
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Midwestern University-Downers Grove
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 Medicine · First Professional Degree at Midwestern University-Downers Grove(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 Illinois
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Midwestern University-Downers Grove graduates earn $X” — not “Midwestern University-Downers Grove makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Midwestern University-Downers Grove 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.