+12%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Columbia-Greene Community College rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (56.6% → 63.1%).
New York · Public · Predominantly associate's
Columbia-Greene Community College
Hudson, New York. 900 undergraduate students. 20 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Columbia-Greene 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. New York
Each tile compares this institution to the New York median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$44,441+25% · 6→10y
New York median $48,917$35,538
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry33.7%-3% · '97→'09
New York median 64.2%$9,000+300% · '97→'20
At program completion900-24% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS60.5%+0% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$5,904+146% · '00→'24
out-of-state $11,160SECTION 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
2.7%Median federal debt $9,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $44,441 (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.
-24%
Columbia-Greene Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
1,158 → 876
+146%
Columbia-Greene Community College · in-state tuition rose
$2,460 → $6,048
+139%
Columbia-Greene Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,788 → $11,448
+300%
Columbia-Greene Community College · median debt rose
$3,000 → $12,000
-100%
Columbia-Greene Community College · cohort default rate fell
16.1% → 0.0%
-32%
Columbia-Greene Community College · pell share fell
39.1% → 26.4%
+33%
Columbia-Greene Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$33,400 → $44,441
+46%
Columbia-Greene Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$29,200 → $42,561
+28%
Columbia-Greene Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$27,700 → $35,538
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
2 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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Columbia-Greene 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
$16,577
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 32
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $6,913
- HS-only baseline · NY
- $40,100
- 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 New York
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Columbia-Greene Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Columbia-Greene Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Columbia-Greene 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.