-18%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Chesapeake College are 18% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($36.3k vs $44.3k).
Maryland · Public · Predominantly associate's
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, Maryland. 1,275 undergraduate students. 46 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Chesapeake 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.
+15%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Chesapeake College rose 15% between 2021 and 2024 (54.8% → 63.2%).
+19%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Chesapeake College rose 18% between 2021 and 2024 ($7.4k → $8.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Maryland
Each tile compares this institution to the Maryland median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$36,301+4% · 6→10y
Maryland median $46,719$35,022
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry21.2%-30% · '97→'09
Maryland median 52.1%—
At program completion1,275-13% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS66.7%+13% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,010+101% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,504SECTION 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 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.
-30%
Chesapeake College · completion · 150% fell
14.9% → 10.5%
+13%
Chesapeake College · retention rose
56.0% → 63.2%
+101%
Chesapeake College · in-state tuition rose
$2,130 → $4,274
+122%
Chesapeake College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,952 → $8,768
+26%
Chesapeake College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,700 → $36,301
+24%
Chesapeake College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$28,300 → $35,105
+34%
Chesapeake College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,200 → $35,022
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.$74,652Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$65,878Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$47,042Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$42,197
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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Chesapeake 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
$56,465
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 24
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $6,074
- HS-only baseline · MD
- $41,100
- 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 Maryland
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Chesapeake College graduates earn $X” — not “Chesapeake College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Chesapeake 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.