-33%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Urban College of Boston fell 33% between 2006 and 2009 (50.0% → 33.3%).
Massachusetts · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Urban College of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts. 356 undergraduate students. 7 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Urban College of Boston
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.
+55%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Urban College of Boston rose 55% between 2021 and 2024 (283 → 438).
-25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 25% at Urban College of Boston vs the 2018–2022 baseline (356 vs 475).
-19pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 19 pp at Urban College of Boston vs the 2004–2007 baseline (0.0% vs 18.8%).
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.
$35,472+7% · 6→10y
Massachusetts median $56,022$33,241
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry0.0%-50% · '04→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%—
At program completion356
latest IPEDS—-17% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$7,608+211% · '03→'24
out-of-state $7,608SECTION 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.
-50%
Urban College of Boston · completion · 150% fell
50.0% → 25.0%
-17%
Urban College of Boston · retention fell
40.0% → 33.3%
+219%
Urban College of Boston · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 438
+211%
Urban College of Boston · in-state tuition rose
$2,445 → $7,608
+211%
Urban College of Boston · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,445 → $7,608
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Urban College of Boston
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 Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Associate's Degree at Urban College of Boston(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
“Urban College of Boston graduates earn $X” — not “Urban College of Boston makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Urban College of Boston 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.