+100%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Saint Anthony College of Nursing rose 100% between 2021 and 2024 (50.0% → 100.0%).
Illinois · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Saint Anthony College of Nursing
Rockford, Illinois. 152 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Saint Anthony College of Nursing
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Saint Anthony College of Nursing fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.0% → 0.0%).
+32%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Saint Anthony College of Nursing are 32% above the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($77.7k vs $58.7k).
-16%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Saint Anthony College of Nursing fell 16% between 2017 and 2020 ($23.7k → $20.0k).
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.
$77,709+2% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$76,111
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—±0% · '17→'21
Illinois median 53.3%$18,750+23% · '97→'20
At program completion152+121% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—±0% · '16→'24
first-time, full-time100.0%±0% · '16→'23
latest cohort$27,811+14% · '16→'24
out-of-state $27,811SECTION 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
3.2%Median federal debt $18,750 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $77,709 (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.
+47%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing · undergrad enrollment rose
78 → 172
+23%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing · median debt rose
$16,250 → $20,000
+42%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing · earnings_median_10yr rose
$54,900 → $77,709
+38%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing · earnings_median_8yr rose
$55,000 → $75,726
+34%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing · earnings_median_6yr rose
$56,600 → $76,111
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Saint Anthony College of Nursing
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 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree at Saint Anthony College of Nursing(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
“Saint Anthony College of Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Saint Anthony College of Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Saint Anthony College of Nursing 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.