+17%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Northwest Career College rose 17% between 2017 and 2020 ($8.2k → $9.5k).
Nevada · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Northwest Career College
Las Vegas, Nevada. 2,222 undergraduate students. 9 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Northwest Career 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Northwest Career College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.5% → 0.0%).
-14%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Northwest Career College are 14% below 6-year earnings ($32.0k → $27.5k).
+86%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Northwest Career College rose 86% between 2021 and 2024 (1.6k → 2.9k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Nevada
Each tile compares this institution to the Nevada median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$27,530-14% · 6→10y
Nevada median $39,289$31,954
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry67.3%-25% · '05→'09
Nevada median 62.5%$8,314+72% · '05→'20
At program completion2,222+2410% · '05→'24
latest IPEDS66.9%-21% · '12→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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
4.0%Median federal debt $8,314 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $27,530 (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.
-25%
Northwest Career College · completion · 150% fell
90.2% → 67.7%
-21%
Northwest Career College · retention fell
83.9% → 65.9%
+1410%
Northwest Career College · undergrad enrollment rose
117 → 2,937
+72%
Northwest Career College · median debt rose
$5,521 → $9,500
-100%
Northwest Career College · cohort default rate fell
25.8% → 0.0%
+28%
Northwest Career College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$24,700 → $31,658
+42%
Northwest Career College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$22,500 → $31,954
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Northwest Career 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 Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Northwest Career 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 Nevada
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Northwest Career College graduates earn $X” — not “Northwest Career College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Northwest Career 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.