-72%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Bethany Global University fell 71% between 2021 and 2024 (284 → 81).
Minnesota · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Bethany Global University
Bloomington, Minnesota. 162 undergraduate students. 5 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Bethany Global University
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.
-63%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Bethany Global University fell 63% between 2021 and 2024 (58.7% → 21.7%).
-55%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Bethany Global University fell 55% between 2021 and 2024 (53.5% → 23.9%).
-33%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Bethany Global University fell 33% between 2021 and 2024 (84.4% → 56.3%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Minnesota
Each tile compares this institution to the Minnesota median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Minnesota median $48,321$34,385
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry61.2%-34% · '15→'24
Minnesota median 54.7%$11,598+26% · '16→'20
At program completion162-40% · '15→'24
latest IPEDS56.1%-67% · '15→'24
first-time, full-time93.9%+44% · '15→'24
latest cohort$20,700-15% · '15→'24
out-of-state $20,700SECTION 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.
-34%
Bethany Global University · completion · 150% fell
85.0% → 56.3%
-24%
Bethany Global University · completion · 100% fell
31.6% → 23.9%
-67%
Bethany Global University · retention fell
66.7% → 21.7%
-28%
Bethany Global University · undergrad enrollment fell
136 → 81
+26%
Bethany Global University · median debt rose
$9,500 → $12,000
-100%
Bethany Global University · cohort default rate fell
42.8% → 0.0%
+162%
Bethany Global University · pell share rose
22.6% → 59.3%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Bethany Global University
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 Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology · Bachelor's Degree at Bethany Global University(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 Minnesota
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Bethany Global University graduates earn $X” — not “Bethany Global University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Bethany Global University 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.