-26%
Massachusetts College of Art and Design · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Massachusetts College of Art and Design are 26% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($43.6k vs $59.0k).
State hub · Massachusetts · vintage 2025-05
Massachusetts Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Massachusetts — 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 Massachusetts
Top signals rolled up across Massachusettsinstitutions — 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.
9.6%
Montserrat College of Art · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 9.6% at Montserrat College of Art exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($23.7k debt amortized over 10 years vs $33.0k earnings).
+350%
Southeastern Technical Institute · Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Southeastern Technical Institute rose 350% between 2003 and 2006 ($1.0k → $4.5k).
+150%
Southeastern Technical Institute · In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Southeastern Technical Institute rose 150% between 2003 and 2006 ($1.0k → $2.5k).
-100%
Boston Baptist College · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Boston Baptist College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (60.0% → 0.0%).
+100%
New England Law-Boston · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at New England Law-Boston rose 100% between 2009 and 2011 ($1.0k → $2.0k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Massachusetts Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
131
Title-IV main campuses6,260
with published outcomes$56,022
across institutions66.5%
median across institutions308,001
latest historical vintage$36,996
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Massachusetts 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.
+20%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
256,502 → 308,001
+172%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$13,600 → $36,996
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
69 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 69 of 131 Title-IV institutions · Public 42 · Private 71 · For-profit 18
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 71 Massachusetts cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Amherst
- Andover
- Bedford
- Beverly
- Billerica
- Boston
- Bourne
- Bridgewater
- Brighton
- Brockton
- Brookline
- Buzzards Bay
- Cambridge
- Canton
- Charlton
- Chestnut Hill
- Chicopee
- Concord
- Danvers
- Dudley
- Easton
- Fall River
- Fitchburg
- Framingham
- Franklin
- Gardner
- Greenfield
- Haverhill
- Holyoke
- Longmeadow
- Lowell
- Lunenburg
- Malden
- Marlborough
- Medford
- Milton
- Needham
- New Bedford
- Newton
- North Adams
- North Andover
- North Dartmouth
- Northampton
- Norton
- Norwood
- Oxford
- Paxton
- Pittsfield
- Quincy
- Roxbury Crossing
- Salem
- Seekonk
- South Easton
- South Hadley
- South Hamilton
- Springfield
- Taunton
- Tewksbury
- Tyngsboro
- Upton
- Waltham
- Wellesley
- Wellesley Hills
- Wenham
- West Barnstable
- West Springfield
- Westfield
- Weston
- Williamstown
- Woburn
- Worcester
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.