+37%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Stone Child College rose 36% between 2021 and 2024 ($2.6k → $3.6k).
Montana · Public · Predominantly associate's
Stone Child College
Box Elder, Montana. 187 undergraduate students. 31 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Stone Child 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.
+107%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Stone Child College are 107% above 6-year earnings ($11.9k → $24.6k).
+37%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Stone Child College rose 36% between 2021 and 2024 ($2.6k → $3.6k).
-22%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Stone Child College fell 22% between 2021 and 2024 (246 → 193).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Montana
Each tile compares this institution to the Montana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$24,555+107% · 6→10y
Montana median $40,738$11,860
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry32.5%+276% · '98→'24
Montana median 46.1%—
At program completion187+22% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+59% · '04→'22
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,610+85% · '00→'24
out-of-state $3,610SECTION 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.
+276%
Stone Child College · completion · 150% rose
9.1% → 34.2%
+950%
Stone Child College · completion · 100% rose
4.8% → 50.0%
+59%
Stone Child College · retention rose
63.0% → 100.0%
+85%
Stone Child College · in-state tuition rose
$1,950 → $3,610
+52%
Stone Child College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,370 → $3,610
-34%
Stone Child College · pell share fell
74.1% → 49.0%
+89%
Stone Child College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$11,200 → $24,555
+48%
Stone Child College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$13,600 → $20,732
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Stone Child 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 Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Bachelor's Degree at Stone Child 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 Montana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Stone Child College graduates earn $X” — not “Stone Child College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Stone Child 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.