-14%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Bennett College fell 14% between 2021 and 2024 (207 → 178).
North Carolina · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Bennett College
Greensboro, North Carolina. 191 undergraduate students. 19 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Bennett 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 Bennett College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (6.5% → 0.0%).
-13pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 13 pp at Bennett College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (20.6% vs 33.2%).
+58%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Bennett College are 58% above 6-year earnings ($23.2k → $36.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. North Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the North Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$36,654+58% · 6→10y
North Carolina median $36,030$23,153
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry20.6%-47% · '97→'24
North Carolina median 46.1%$17,351+116% · '97→'20
At program completion191-68% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS90.0%+17% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time33.6%-20% · '01→'24
latest cohort$19,140+108% · '00→'24
out-of-state $19,140SECTION 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
6.3%Median federal debt $17,351 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $36,654 (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.
-47%
Bennett College · completion · 150% fell
47.1% → 25.0%
-33%
Bennett College · completion · 100% fell
29.3% → 19.7%
+17%
Bennett College · retention rose
73.0% → 85.7%
-68%
Bennett College · undergrad enrollment fell
550 → 178
+108%
Bennett College · in-state tuition rose
$9,222 → $19,140
+108%
Bennett College · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,222 → $19,140
+116%
Bennett College · median debt rose
$13,047 → $28,130
-100%
Bennett College · cohort default rate fell
14.8% → 0.0%
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.
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Bennett 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
$65,734
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 27
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $24,156
- HS-only baseline · NC
- $35,600
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 26
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 North Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Bennett College graduates earn $X” — not “Bennett College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Bennett 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.