+200%
First-year retention
First-year retention at American College of Healthcare Sciences rose 200% between 2022 and 2024 (33.3% → 100.0%).
Oregon · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
American College of Healthcare Sciences
Portland, Oregon. 810 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at American College of Healthcare Sciences
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 American College of Healthcare Sciences fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.2% → 0.0%).
-53%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at American College of Healthcare Sciences fell 53% between 2017 and 2020 ($28.5k → $13.5k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Oregon
Each tile compares this institution to the Oregon median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-22% · 6→8y
Oregon median $40,968$26,458
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+500% · '18→'24
Oregon median 57.5%$9,500-52% · '15→'20
At program completion810+129% · '12→'24
latest IPEDS50.0%
first-time, full-time58.2%-12% · '12→'24
latest cohort$12,656+32% · '12→'24
out-of-state $12,656SECTION 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.
+500%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · completion · 150% rose
16.7% → 100.0%
+2000%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · retention rose
0.0% → 100.0%
+129%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · undergrad enrollment rose
331 → 759
+32%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · in-state tuition rose
$9,880 → $13,040
+32%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,880 → $13,040
-52%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · median debt fell
$28,250 → $13,523
+1310%
American College of Healthcare Sciences · pell share rose
0.0% → 65.5%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at American College of Healthcare Sciences
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 Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at American College of Healthcare Sciences(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 Oregon
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“American College of Healthcare Sciences graduates earn $X” — not “American College of Healthcare Sciences makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending American College of Healthcare Sciences 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.