-15%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Kennebec Valley Community College are 15% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($36.0k vs $42.4k).
Maine · Public · Predominantly associate's
Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, Maine. 1,538 undergraduate students. 46 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Kennebec Valley Community 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.
-19%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Kennebec Valley Community College are 19% below 6-year earnings ($44.4k → $36.0k).
-17%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Kennebec Valley Community College fell 17% between 2006 and 2009 (40.2% → 33.2%).
+13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Kennebec Valley Community College rose 13% between 2017 and 2020 ($11.7k → $13.3k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Maine
Each tile compares this institution to the Maine median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$36,035-19% · 6→10y
Maine median $44,433$44,404
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry47.8%-31% · '99→'09
Maine median 56.4%$9,500+279% · '97→'20
At program completion1,538+95% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS59.0%+4% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,562+37% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,442SECTION 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
3.5%Median federal debt $9,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $36,035 (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.
-31%
Kennebec Valley Community College · completion · 150% fell
47.9% → 33.2%
+95%
Kennebec Valley Community College · undergrad enrollment rose
818 → 1,597
+37%
Kennebec Valley Community College · in-state tuition rose
$3,026 → $4,156
+279%
Kennebec Valley Community College · median debt rose
$3,500 → $13,255
-100%
Kennebec Valley Community College · cohort default rate fell
18.1% → 0.0%
+41%
Kennebec Valley Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$32,600 → $45,906
+39%
Kennebec Valley Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$31,900 → $44,404
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.
Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.$88,632Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$70,949Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$63,060Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$59,708Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.$59,498Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.$54,596Precision Metal Working.$50,715Marketing.$41,882Health and Medical Administrative Services.$41,299Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$40,512Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$36,964Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$34,749Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$33,065
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
13 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
CONSTRUCTION TRADES · CIP 46
PRECISION PRODUCTION · CIP 48
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$36,964Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$59,708Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$70,949Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$63,060Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$40,512Health and Medical Administrative Services.$41,299Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$33,065
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Kennebec Valley Community 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
-$9,340
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $9,712
- HS-only baseline · ME
- $36,200
- 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 Maine
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Kennebec Valley Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Kennebec Valley Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Kennebec Valley Community 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.