-14%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Essex County College are 14% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($37.2k vs $43.4k).
New Jersey · Public · Predominantly associate's
Essex County College
Newark, New Jersey. 5,643 undergraduate students. 49 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Essex County 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. 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.
$37,230+23% · 6→10y
New Jersey median $46,742$30,298
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry20.8%+23% · '97→'09
New Jersey median 62.0%—±0% · '97→'98
At program completion5,643-28% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.8%-5% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$5,346+102% · '00→'24
out-of-state $9,318SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-28%
Essex County College · undergrad enrollment fell
8,086 → 5,855
+102%
Essex County College · in-state tuition rose
$2,678 → $5,415
+97%
Essex County College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,839 → $9,523
+377%
Essex County College · pell share rose
9.8% → 46.9%
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$98,404Engineering, General.$72,634Computer Programming.$68,836Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$61,219Business Administration, Management and Operations.$52,619Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.$44,612Criminal Justice and Corrections.$44,582Accounting and Related Services.$44,577Biology, General.$42,017Social Sciences, General.$36,237Social Work.$34,725Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$33,841Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$32,934
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
13 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Essex County 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
$85,712
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 19
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $6,059
- HS-only baseline · NJ
- $41,700
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 51
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
“Essex County College graduates earn $X” — not “Essex County College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Essex County 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.