-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at La James International College-Ft Dodge fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (10.2% → 0.0%).
Iowa · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
La James International College-Ft Dodge
Fort Dodge, Iowa. 20 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at La James International College-Ft Dodge
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.
+57%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at La James International College-Ft Dodge rose 57% between 2021 and 2024 (14 → 22).
-13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at La James International College-Ft Dodge fell 13% between 2014 and 2017 ($13.7k → $12.0k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Iowa
Each tile compares this institution to the Iowa median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$26,679+32% · 6→10y
Iowa median $42,849$20,209
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%+16% · '97→'09
Iowa median 58.4%—+262% · '97→'17
At program completion20-33% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS91.7%+10% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+262%
La James International College-Ft Dodge · median debt rose
$3,313 → $12,000
-100%
La James International College-Ft Dodge · cohort default rate fell
6.0% → 0.0%
+29%
La James International College-Ft Dodge · pell share rose
53.3% → 68.8%
+40%
La James International College-Ft Dodge · earnings_median_10yr rose
$19,100 → $26,679
+28%
La James International College-Ft Dodge · earnings_median_6yr rose
$15,800 → $20,209
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
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at La James International College-Ft Dodge
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
-$143,162
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $16,505
- HS-only baseline · IA
- $36,800
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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 Iowa
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“La James International College-Ft Dodge graduates earn $X” — not “La James International College-Ft Dodge makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending La James International College-Ft Dodge 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.