-77%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary fell 77% between 2021 and 2024 (37.4% → 8.7%).
North Carolina · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, North Carolina. 466 undergraduate students. 54 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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.
+15%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary rose 15% between 2021 and 2024 (50.5% → 58.1%).
+11%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 ($10.2k → $11.3k).
+11%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 ($10.2k → $11.3k).
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.
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North Carolina median $36,030—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry46.4%+306% · '02→'24
North Carolina median 46.1%—
At program completion466+205% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS81.8%+8% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time76.6%-16% · '02→'24
latest cohort$10,646+313% · '01→'24
out-of-state $10,646SECTION 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.
+306%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary · completion · 150% rose
14.3% → 58.1%
-48%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary · completion · 100% fell
16.7% → 8.7%
+197%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary · undergrad enrollment rose
192 → 585
+313%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary · in-state tuition rose
$2,740 → $11,318
+313%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,740 → $11,318
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
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS · CIP 39
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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
$710,439
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 8
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $7,367
- HS-only baseline · NC
- $35,600
- Years to complete
- 6
- CIP family
- 39
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
“Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates earn $X” — not “Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary 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.