-79%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Digital Media Institute fell 79% between 2021 and 2024 (34 → 7).
Louisiana · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Digital Media Institute
Shreveport, Louisiana. 13 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Digital Media Institute
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.
-18%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Digital Media Institute fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 81.8%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Louisiana
Each tile compares this institution to the Louisiana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Louisiana median $33,099—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%
Louisiana median 52.0%$5,500
At program completion13-50% · '17→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%-18% · '17→'24
first-time, full-time31.9%-61% · '17→'24
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.
-18%
Digital Media Institute · retention fell
100.0% → 81.8%
+560%
Digital Media Institute · pell share rose
0.0% → 28.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Digital Media Institute
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 Graphic Communications · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Digital Media Institute(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 Louisiana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Digital Media Institute graduates earn $X” — not “Digital Media Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Digital Media Institute 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.