-32%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Minneapolis College of Art and Design are 32% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($40.9k vs $60.5k).
State hub · Minnesota · vintage 2025-05
Minnesota Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Minnesota — 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 Minnesota
Top signals rolled up across Minnesotainstitutions — 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.
-26%
North Central University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at North Central University are 25% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($45.1k vs $60.5k).
-24%
Bethany Lutheran College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Bethany Lutheran College are 24% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($46.1k vs $60.5k).
-22%
Martin Luther College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Martin Luther College are 21% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($47.5k vs $60.5k).
-21%
Crown College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Crown College are 21% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($48.1k vs $60.5k).
-21%
Model College of Hair Design · For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Model College of Hair Design are 20% below the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($25.4k vs $32.0k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Minnesota Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
84
Title-IV main campuses4,926
with published outcomes$48,321
across institutions54.7%
median across institutions227,195
latest historical vintage$10,395
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Minnesota 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.
+14%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
51.8% → 58.9%
+18%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
193,054 → 227,195
+216%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,295 → $10,395
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
53 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 53 of 84 Title-IV institutions · Public 39 · Private 33 · For-profit 12
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.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 48 Minnesota cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Alexandria
- Anoka
- Austin
- Bemidji
- Bloomington
- Brainerd
- Brooklyn Park
- Cass Lake
- Center City
- Cloquet
- Collegeville
- Coon Rapids
- Crookston
- Duluth
- Fergus Falls
- Granite Falls
- Hastings
- Hibbing
- Inver Grove Heights
- Mahnomen
- Mankato
- Maplewood
- Marshall
- Minneapolis
- Minnetonka
- Moorhead
- Morris
- New Ulm
- North Mankato
- Northfield
- Pine City
- Red Lake
- Rochester
- Rosemount
- Roseville
- Saint Bonifacius
- Saint Cloud
- Saint Joseph
- Saint Paul
- Saint Peter
- St. Cloud
- St. Paul
- Thief River Falls
- White Bear Lake
- Willmar
- Winona
- WOODBURY
- Worthington
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.