+25%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford rose 25% between 2016 and 2018 ($7.6k → $9.5k).
Massachusetts · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford
New Bedford, Massachusetts. 15 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.8% → 0.0%).
+63%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford rose 63% between 2006 and 2009 (52.5% → 85.7%).
+15%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford rose 15% between 2021 and 2024 (13 → 15).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Massachusetts
Each tile compares this institution to the Massachusetts median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Massachusetts median $56,022—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry83.3%+25% · '97→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%—+262% · '01→'18
At program completion15-66% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS69.2%+5% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—
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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+25%
Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford · completion · 150% rose
68.8% → 85.7%
+262%
Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,500
-100%
Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford · cohort default rate fell
38.0% → 0.0%
+46%
Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford · earnings_median_8yr rose
$10,000 → $16,900
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford
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 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford(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 Massachusetts
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford graduates earn $X” — not “Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Rob Roy Academy-New Bedford 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.