-12%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Sampson Community College fell 12% between 2006 and 2009 (20.4% → 17.9%).
North Carolina · Public · Predominantly associate's
Sampson Community College
Clinton, North Carolina. 941 undergraduate students. 36 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sampson 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.
-28%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Sampson Community College fell 28% between 2000 and 2003 ($2.6k → $1.9k).
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.
$33,409+20% · 6→10y
North Carolina median $36,030$27,894
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry52.5%-20% · '97→'09
North Carolina median 46.1%—-28% · '97→'03
At program completion941+79% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS60.5%+340% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$2,830+216% · '00→'24
out-of-state $9,742SECTION 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.
-20%
Sampson Community College · completion · 150% fell
22.5% → 17.9%
+340%
Sampson Community College · retention rose
15.0% → 66.0%
+79%
Sampson Community College · undergrad enrollment rose
473 → 846
+197%
Sampson Community College · in-state tuition rose
$911 → $2,877
+79%
Sampson Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,463 → $9,789
-28%
Sampson Community College · median debt fell
$2,625 → $1,881
+796%
Sampson Community College · pell share rose
3.5% → 43.3%
+40%
Sampson Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$23,800 → $33,409
+37%
Sampson Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$23,700 → $32,442
+27%
Sampson Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$21,900 → $27,894
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 Sampson 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
$60,216
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 21
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $4,877
- HS-only baseline · NC
- $35,600
- 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 North Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sampson Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Sampson Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sampson 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.