-34%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton fell 34% between 2021 and 2024 (81.2% → 53.3%).
Michigan · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton
Brighton, Michigan. 26 undergraduate students. 22 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton
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 Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.8% → 0.0%).
-17pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 17 pp at Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton vs the 2003–2007 baseline (65.5% vs 82.2%).
+35%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton rose 34% between 2021 and 2024 (29 → 39).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Michigan
Each tile compares this institution to the Michigan median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$29,898+6% · 6→10y
Michigan median $38,167$28,207
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry65.5%+25% · '97→'09
Michigan median 57.1%$7,719+262% · '97→'20
At program completion26-5% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS50.0%-39% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—-57% · '01→'12
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
3.4%Median federal debt $7,719 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $29,898 (10y after entry).
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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+25%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · completion · 150% rose
69.2% → 86.5%
-39%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · retention fell
87.0% → 53.3%
+262%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,500
-100%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · cohort default rate fell
26.8% → 0.0%
+38%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · earnings_median_10yr rose
$21,600 → $29,898
+25%
Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton · earnings_median_8yr rose
$23,100 → $28,831
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$69,512Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$52,182Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$43,846Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$38,929Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.$33,438Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$33,135Business/Commerce, General.$33,025Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,034Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$29,691Health and Medical Administrative Services.$29,443Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$28,785Criminal Justice and Corrections.$25,063
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
12 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$28,785Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$29,691Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,034Health and Medical Administrative Services.$29,443Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$38,929Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$43,846Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$69,512Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$52,182
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
AGRICULTURE · CIP 01
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$151,536
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $21,638
- HS-only baseline · MI
- $36,900
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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 Michigan
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton graduates earn $X” — not “Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Ross Medical Education Center-Brighton 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.