Massachusetts · Public · Predominantly certificates

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School

Bourne, Massachusetts. 77 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School

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.

COMPLETION DROP · TRENDING WORSE-41pp

150%-time completion

150%-time completion fell 41 pp at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School vs the 2003–2007 baseline (56.5% vs 97.1%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER-100%

3-year cohort default rate

3-year cohort default rate at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.7% → 0.0%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE+15%

In-state tuition

In-state tuition at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School rose 15% between 2006 and 2009 ($7.0k → $8.0k).

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.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
Massachusetts median $56,022
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
56.5%-6% · '97→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$9,500+43% · '06→'20
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
77+100% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
88.2%-3% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
100.0%+1% · '02→'24
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
+46% · '03→'09
annual
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.

UNDERGRAD · 1996202470
892919962024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION 150% · 1997200990.7%
100%0%19972009
150%-time completion rate.IPEDS GR
MEDIAN DEBT · 20062020$9,500
$9,500$6,62520062020
Median federal student debt at exit.SCORECARD
IN-STATE TUITION · 20032009+46%

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School · in-state tuition rose

$5,500 → $8,035

OUT-OF-STATE TUITION · 20032009+39%

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School · out-of-state tuition rose

$6,500 → $9,035

MEDIAN DEBT · 20062020+43%

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School · median debt rose

$6,625 → $9,500

COHORT DEFAULT RATE · 20112024-100%

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School · cohort default rate fell

9.0% → 0.0%

PELL SHARE · 20082009-42%

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School · pell share fell

44.9% → 26.1%

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School

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 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School(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.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School graduates earn $X” — not “Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School 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.

Methodology →