+136%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Surry Community College rose 136% between 2006 and 2009 ($2.6k → $6.2k).
North Carolina · Public · Predominantly certificates
Surry Community College
Dobson, North Carolina. 1,445 undergraduate students. 66 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Surry 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Surry Community College fell 100% between 2019 and 2022 (7.1% → 0.0%).
-17pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 17 pp at Surry Community College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (7.7% vs 24.2%).
-12%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Surry Community College fell 12% between 2021 and 2024 (1.7k → 1.5k).
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.
$36,012+17% · 6→10y
North Carolina median $36,030$30,884
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry7.7%-33% · '98→'09
North Carolina median 46.1%—+163% · '97→'09
At program completion1,445+27% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS75.1%+20% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$2,545+233% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,689SECTION 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.
-33%
Surry Community College · completion · 150% fell
37.2% → 24.9%
+20%
Surry Community College · retention rose
61.0% → 73.1%
+27%
Surry Community College · undergrad enrollment rose
1,160 → 1,475
+187%
Surry Community College · in-state tuition rose
$802 → $2,668
+84%
Surry Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,785 → $8,812
+163%
Surry Community College · median debt rose
$2,346 → $6,179
-100%
Surry Community College · cohort default rate fell
6.2% → 0.0%
+419%
Surry Community College · pell share rose
4.6% → 25.5%
+27%
Surry Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,400 → $36,012
+32%
Surry Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,300 → $34,723
+25%
Surry Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$24,700 → $30,884
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
4 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
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Surry 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
-$2,392
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $5,803
- 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
“Surry Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Surry Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Surry 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.