-36%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tri-County Adult Career Center are 36% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($26.1k vs $40.5k).
Ohio · Public · Predominantly certificates
Tri-County Adult Career Center
Nelsonville, Ohio. 24 undergraduate students. 8 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Tri-County Adult Career Center
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.
+22%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Tri-County Adult Career Center rose 22% between 2006 and 2009 (70.0% → 85.3%).
-59%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Tri-County Adult Career Center fell 59% between 2021 and 2024 (17 → 7).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Ohio
Each tile compares this institution to the Ohio median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$26,129+12% · 6→10y
Ohio median $41,039$23,359
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry95.8%+122% · '97→'09
Ohio median 62.5%—
At program completion24-86% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS54.3%+9% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+122%
Tri-County Adult Career Center · completion · 150% rose
37.3% → 82.6%
-21%
Tri-County Adult Career Center · undergrad enrollment fell
49 → 7
-77%
Tri-County Adult Career Center · pell share fell
60.0% → 13.6%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Tri-County Adult Career Center
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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Tri-County Adult Career Center(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
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 Ohio
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Tri-County Adult Career Center graduates earn $X” — not “Tri-County Adult Career Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Tri-County Adult Career Center 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.