-17%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College are 17% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($29.5k vs $35.7k).
Kentucky · Public · Predominantly certificates
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College
Cumberland, Kentucky. 1,680 undergraduate students. 43 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southeast Kentucky Community & 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.
+107%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College rose 107% between 2006 and 2009 (20.5% → 42.3%).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.9% → 0.0%).
-58%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College fell 58% between 2021 and 2024 ($15.2k → $6.4k).
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.
$29,482+9% · 6→10y
Kentucky median $37,114$26,999
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry43.6%+65% · '97→'09
Kentucky median 49.7%$5,500+177% · '97→'20
At program completion1,680-13% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS71.8%+35% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,656+284% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,192SECTION 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
2.5%Median federal debt $5,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $29,482 (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.
+65%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · completion · 150% rose
25.6% → 42.3%
+35%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · retention rose
50.0% → 67.5%
+284%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · in-state tuition rose
$1,230 → $4,728
+82%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,530 → $6,432
+177%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · median debt rose
$2,500 → $6,919
-100%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · cohort default rate fell
27.0% → 0.0%
+41%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · pell share rose
28.5% → 40.1%
+28%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$23,000 → $29,523
+33%
Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$20,300 → $26,999
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$64,119Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$48,987Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).$36,049Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$30,937
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
4 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southeast Kentucky Community & 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$33,027
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $4,346
- HS-only baseline · KY
- $33,900
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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
“Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southeast Kentucky Community & 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.