+52%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City rose 52% between 2017 and 2020 ($20.0k → $30.4k).
Missouri · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri. 211 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City
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 Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.2% → 0.0%).
-22%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City are 22% below 6-year earnings ($52.3k → $40.7k).
+21%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City rose 21% between 2006 and 2009 ($32.6k → $39.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Missouri
Each tile compares this institution to the Missouri median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$40,743-22% · 6→10y
Missouri median $40,979$52,341
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry46.2%-40% · '02→'09
Missouri median 59.3%$14,805+88% · '02→'20
At program completion211+78% · '02→'24
latest IPEDS67.7%+1% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$16,757+71% · '02→'09
out-of-state $16,757SECTION 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
4.8%Median federal debt $14,805 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $40,743 (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.
-40%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · completion · 150% fell
72.2% → 43.1%
+56%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · undergrad enrollment rose
142 → 253
+71%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · in-state tuition rose
$23,040 → $39,432
+88%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · median debt rose
$16,152 → $30,416
-100%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · cohort default rate fell
32.2% → 0.0%
-31%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · pell share fell
45.6% → 31.3%
+37%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City · earnings_median_6yr rose
$38,300 → $52,341
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City
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
$409,545
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 4
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $30,611
- HS-only baseline · MO
- $35,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 47
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 Missouri
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City graduates earn $X” — not “Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Kansas City 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.