-23%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Southwest Technology Center fell 23% between 2006 and 2009 (193 → 149).
Oklahoma · Public · Predominantly certificates
Southwest Technology Center
Altus, Oklahoma. 309 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southwest 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.
+45%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Southwest Technology Center are 45% above the public certificate-predominant peer median ($49.0k vs $33.7k).
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.
$48,966+10% · 6→10y
Oklahoma median $38,465$44,498
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry83.0%+13% · '97→'09
Oklahoma median 52.9%—
At program completion309-37% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS83.2%+29% · '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.
+29%
Southwest Technology Center · retention rose
65.0% → 83.6%
-37%
Southwest Technology Center · undergrad enrollment fell
236 → 149
-28%
Southwest Technology Center · pell share fell
27.4% → 19.9%
+88%
Southwest Technology Center · earnings_median_10yr rose
$26,100 → $48,966
+69%
Southwest Technology Center · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,500 → $36,427
+90%
Southwest Technology Center · earnings_median_6yr rose
$23,400 → $44,498
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southwest 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 Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Southwest 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
“Southwest Technology Center graduates earn $X” — not “Southwest Technology Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southwest 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.