+57%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Medical Career & Technical College rose 57% between 2017 and 2020 ($4.0k → $6.3k).
Kentucky · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Medical Career & Technical College
Richmond, Kentucky. 199 undergraduate students. 5 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Medical Career & Technical 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 Medical Career & Technical College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.4% → 0.0%).
+34%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Medical Career & Technical College rose 34% between 2021 and 2024 (175 → 235).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Kentucky
Each tile compares this institution to the Kentucky median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—
Kentucky median $37,114—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry97.9%
Kentucky median 49.7%$5,500+57% · '17→'20
At program completion199+120% · '16→'24
latest IPEDS81.5%+13% · '16→'24
first-time, full-time—+36% · '16→'17
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.
+13%
Medical Career & Technical College · retention rose
78.4% → 88.5%
+64%
Medical Career & Technical College · undergrad enrollment rose
107 → 235
+57%
Medical Career & Technical College · median debt rose
$4,044 → $6,333
-100%
Medical Career & Technical College · cohort default rate fell
13.3% → 0.0%
+124%
Medical Career & Technical College · pell share rose
30.8% → 68.8%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Medical Career & Technical 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 Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Medical Career & Technical 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 Kentucky
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Medical Career & Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Medical Career & Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Medical Career & Technical 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.