-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Mid-Plains Community College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.8% → 0.0%).
Nebraska · Public · Predominantly associate's
Mid-Plains Community College
North Platte, Nebraska. 923 undergraduate students. 31 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Mid-Plains Community 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.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Nebraska
Each tile compares this institution to the Nebraska median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$40,059+15% · 6→10y
Nebraska median $47,592$34,852
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry45.6%+18% · '00→'09
Nebraska median 55.9%$6,291+281% · '99→'20
At program completion923-58% · '99→'24
latest IPEDS63.5%+46% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,600+158% · '00→'24
out-of-state $4,530SECTION 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
2.1%Median federal debt $6,291 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $40,059 (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.
+46%
Mid-Plains Community College · retention rose
43.0% → 62.9%
-58%
Mid-Plains Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
2,215 → 937
+158%
Mid-Plains Community College · in-state tuition rose
$1,396 → $3,600
+218%
Mid-Plains Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,426 → $4,530
+281%
Mid-Plains Community College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,995
-100%
Mid-Plains Community College · cohort default rate fell
19.5% → 0.0%
+37%
Mid-Plains Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$29,300 → $40,059
+36%
Mid-Plains Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$27,700 → $37,587
+32%
Mid-Plains Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,400 → $34,852
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
3 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Mid-Plains Community 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$107,072
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 16
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $6,659
- HS-only baseline · NE
- $36,900
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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 Nebraska
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Mid-Plains Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Mid-Plains Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Mid-Plains Community 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.