-43%
Great Lakes Christian College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Great Lakes Christian College are 43% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($31.1k vs $54.7k).
State hub · Michigan · vintage 2025-05
Michigan Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Michigan — 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 Michigan
Top signals rolled up across Michiganinstitutions — 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.
-35%
Baker College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Baker College are 35% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.8k vs $54.7k).
-22%
Wayne County Community College District · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Wayne County Community College District are 22% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($29.1k vs $37.4k).
-15%
Northern Michigan University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Northern Michigan University are 15% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($47.1k vs $55.3k).
-13%
Mott Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mott Community College are 13% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($32.5k vs $37.4k).
8.4%
Dorsey School of Beauty · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.4% at Dorsey School of Beauty exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($8.3k debt amortized over 10 years vs $13.3k earnings).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Michigan Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
132
Title-IV main campuses6,809
with published outcomes$38,167
across institutions57.1%
median across institutions363,802
latest historical vintage$14,890
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Michigan 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.
+21%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
47.6% → 57.6%
+285%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,867 → $14,890
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
57 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 57 of 132 Title-IV institutions · Public 47 · Private 40 · For-profit 45
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.
BY CITY
All 74 Michigan cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Adrian
- Albion
- Allendale
- Alma
- Alpena
- Ann Arbor
- Auburn Hills
- Baraga
- Battle Creek
- Bay City
- Benton Harbor
- Berrien Springs
- Big Rapids
- Bloomfield Hills
- Brighton
- Brimley
- Cadillac
- Canton
- Cedarville
- Centreville
- Dearborn
- Detroit
- Dowagiac
- East Lansing
- Escanaba
- Farmington Hills
- Flint
- Grand Blanc
- Grand Rapids
- Grayling
- Harrison
- Hillsdale
- Holland
- Houghton
- Howell
- Ionia
- Ironwood
- Jackson
- Kalamazoo
- Kentwood
- Lansing
- Livonia
- Madison Heights
- Marquette
- Midland
- Monroe
- Mount Pleasant
- Muskegon
- Norton Shores
- Oak Park
- Olivet
- Owosso
- Petoskey
- Plainwell
- Port Huron
- Riverview
- Rochester Hills
- Royal Oak
- Saint Joseph
- Sault Ste Marie
- Scottville
- Sidney
- Southfield
- Spring Arbor
- Spring Lake
- Sterling Heights
- Taylor
- Traverse City
- Troy
- University Center
- Warren
- Waterford
- Wyoming
- Ypsilanti
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.