-34%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Leech Lake Tribal College fell 34% between 2021 and 2024 (77.8% → 51.1%).
Minnesota · Public · Predominantly associate's
Leech Lake Tribal College
Cass Lake, Minnesota. 243 undergraduate students. 11 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Leech Lake Tribal College
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.
+31%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Leech Lake Tribal College rose 31% between 2006 and 2009 (11.8% → 15.4%).
-33%
10-year median earnings
10-year median earnings at Leech Lake Tribal College fell 32% between 2011 and 2014 ($16.0k → $10.8k).
-13pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 13 pp at Leech Lake Tribal College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (0.0% vs 12.9%).
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.
—-10% · 6→8y
Minnesota median $48,321$24,734
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry0.0%-18% · '98→'09
Minnesota median 54.7%—
At program completion243+89% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS88.2%-4% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,148+107% · '00→'24
out-of-state $4,148SECTION 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.
+47%
Leech Lake Tribal College · undergrad enrollment rose
104 → 197
+107%
Leech Lake Tribal College · in-state tuition rose
$2,345 → $4,850
+107%
Leech Lake Tribal College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,345 → $4,850
-31%
Leech Lake Tribal College · earnings_median_10yr fell
$15,600 → $10,800
+54%
Leech Lake Tribal College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$14,100 → $22,267
+71%
Leech Lake Tribal College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,100 → $24,734
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Leech Lake Tribal College
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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Leech Lake Tribal College(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
“Leech Lake Tribal College graduates earn $X” — not “Leech Lake Tribal College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Leech Lake Tribal College 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.