-28%
Southern University at New Orleans · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Southern University at New Orleans are 28% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($34.0k vs $47.0k).
State hub · Louisiana · vintage 2025-05
Louisiana Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Louisiana — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Louisiana
Top signals rolled up across Louisianainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-26%
Saint Joseph Seminary College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Saint Joseph Seminary College are 26% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($38.4k vs $51.9k).
-25%
Dillard University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Dillard University are 25% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($39.2k vs $51.9k).
-13%
Grambling State University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Grambling State University are 13% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($41.1k vs $47.0k).
-10%
Louisiana State University-Alexandria · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Louisiana State University-Alexandria are 10% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($42.2k vs $47.0k).
-8%
Southern University and A & M College · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Southern University and A & M College are 8% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($43.4k vs $47.0k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Louisiana Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
89
Title-IV main campuses2,521
with published outcomes$33,099
across institutions52.0%
median across institutions182,377
latest historical vintage$8,489
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Louisiana has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+248%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,436 → $8,489
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
32 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 32 of 89 Title-IV institutions · Public 30 · Private 14 · For-profit 45
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 30 Louisiana cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.