-17pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 17 pp at Western Technology Center vs the 2003–2007 baseline (52.6% vs 69.4%).
Oklahoma · Public · Predominantly certificates
Western Technology Center
Burns Flat, Oklahoma. 141 undergraduate students. 23 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Western 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.
+118%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Western Technology Center rose 118% between 2006 and 2009 (41.8% → 91.3%).
+106%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Western Technology Center rose 106% between 2021 and 2024 (46.7% → 96.3%).
+11%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Western Technology Center rose 11% between 2006 and 2009 (186 → 206).
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.
$29,728+11% · 6→10y
Oklahoma median $38,465$26,709
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry52.6%-9% · '98→'09
Oklahoma median 52.9%—±0% · '97→'99
At program completion141
latest IPEDS73.5%+160% · '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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+160%
Western Technology Center · retention rose
37.0% → 96.3%
+103%
Western Technology Center · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 206
-39%
Western Technology Center · pell share fell
22.1% → 13.5%
+24%
Western Technology Center · earnings_median_6yr rose
$21,500 → $26,709
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Western 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 Biology, General · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Western 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
“Western Technology Center graduates earn $X” — not “Western Technology Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Western 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.