-40%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 40% at Meridian Technology Center vs the 2003–2007 baseline (309 vs 517).
Oklahoma · Public · Predominantly certificates
Meridian Technology Center
Stillwater, Oklahoma. 309 undergraduate students. 29 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Meridian Technology 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.
+66%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Meridian Technology Center rose 66% between 2006 and 2009 (42.4% → 70.4%).
-19%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Meridian Technology Center fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (92.0% → 75.0%).
-7pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 7 pp at Meridian Technology Center vs the 2003–2007 baseline (47.8% vs 55.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Oklahoma
Each tile compares this institution to the Oklahoma median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$34,451+5% · 6→10y
Oklahoma median $38,465$32,852
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry47.8%-13% · '99→'09
Oklahoma median 52.9%—
At program completion309-54% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS90.9%-5% · '04→'24
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.
-54%
Meridian Technology Center · undergrad enrollment fell
692 → 316
+106%
Meridian Technology Center · pell share rose
5.6% → 11.6%
+42%
Meridian Technology Center · earnings_median_10yr rose
$24,300 → $34,451
+54%
Meridian Technology Center · earnings_median_6yr rose
$21,400 → $32,852
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Meridian Technology 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 Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Meridian Technology 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 Oklahoma
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Meridian Technology Center graduates earn $X” — not “Meridian Technology Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Meridian Technology 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.