-13%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Southeastern Illinois College are 13% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($33.8k vs $38.6k).
Illinois · Public · Predominantly certificates
Southeastern Illinois College
Harrisburg, Illinois. 659 undergraduate students. 38 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southeastern Illinois 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Southeastern Illinois College fell 100% between 2011 and 2012 (25.0% → 0.0%).
+10%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Southeastern Illinois College rose 10% between 2021 and 2024 ($4.1k → $4.6k).
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.
$33,763+15% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$29,254
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry51.0%-12% · '97→'09
Illinois median 53.3%—±0% · '97→'06
At program completion659-74% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS63.8%+15% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,320+265% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,540SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+15%
Southeastern Illinois College · retention rose
57.0% → 65.5%
-74%
Southeastern Illinois College · undergrad enrollment fell
2,641 → 680
+265%
Southeastern Illinois College · in-state tuition rose
$1,248 → $4,560
-100%
Southeastern Illinois College · cohort default rate fell
25.0% → 0.0%
+27%
Southeastern Illinois College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,200 → $33,346
+22%
Southeastern Illinois College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$23,900 → $29,254
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southeastern Illinois 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Southeastern Illinois College(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
“Southeastern Illinois College graduates earn $X” — not “Southeastern Illinois College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southeastern Illinois 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.