-38%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute fell 38% between 2021 and 2024 (344 → 215).
New Mexico · Public · Predominantly associate's
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico. 233 undergraduate students. 21 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
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.
+73%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute rose 73% between 2021 and 2024 (33.8% → 58.5%).
-36%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 36% at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute vs the 2018–2022 baseline (233 vs 367).
-5pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 5 pp at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute vs the 2003–2007 baseline (8.8% vs 14.2%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New Mexico
Each tile compares this institution to the New Mexico median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$27,660+24% · 6→10y
New Mexico median $36,869$22,307
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry8.8%+138% · '99→'09
New Mexico median 39.2%—
At program completion233-66% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS44.4%+109% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$1,095+313% · '00→'24
out-of-state $1,095SECTION 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.
+138%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · completion · 150% rose
6.0% → 14.2%
+109%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · retention rose
28.0% → 58.5%
-66%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · undergrad enrollment fell
632 → 215
+83%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · in-state tuition rose
$265 → $1,095
+83%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · out-of-state tuition rose
$265 → $1,095
+30%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · earnings_median_10yr rose
$21,200 → $27,660
+32%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · earnings_median_8yr rose
$20,800 → $27,502
+35%
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute · earnings_median_6yr rose
$16,500 → $22,307
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute(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 New Mexico
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute graduates earn $X” — not “Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute 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.