+19%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro rose 19% between 2017 and 2020 ($12.0k → $14.3k).
New Jersey · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro
Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. 500 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro
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.
+124%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro are 124% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($74.0k vs $33.1k).
-14%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro fell 13% between 2021 and 2024 (97.4% → 84.3%).
+111%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro rose 111% between 2021 and 2024 (330 → 695).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New Jersey
Each tile compares this institution to the New Jersey median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$73,971+27% · 6→10y
New Jersey median $46,742$58,035
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry79.0%+52% · '97→'09
New Jersey median 62.0%$12,827+133% · '97→'20
At program completion500+489% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS81.1%+2% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '02→'07
latest cohort$16,757+0% · '20→'24
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
2.3%Median federal debt $12,827 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $73,971 (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.
+52%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · completion · 150% rose
61.0% → 92.4%
+289%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · undergrad enrollment rose
118 → 695
+133%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · median debt rose
$6,125 → $14,279
-100%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · cohort default rate fell
25.0% → 0.0%
-45%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · pell share fell
56.3% → 30.8%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro
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
$148,988
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 13
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $22,854
- HS-only baseline · NJ
- $41,700
- 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 New Jersey
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro graduates earn $X” — not “Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro 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.