-42%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 42% at American College of Financial Services vs the 2018–2021 baseline (4.0k vs 6.8k).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
American College of Financial Services
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. 3,963 undergraduate students. 6 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at American College of Financial Services
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.
-18%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at American College of Financial Services fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (6.3k → 5.1k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Pennsylvania
Each tile compares this institution to the Pennsylvania median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Pennsylvania median $49,859—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—
At program completion3,963
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+2572%
American College of Financial Services · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 5,144
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at American College of Financial Services
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 Finance and Financial Management Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at American College of Financial Services(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 Pennsylvania
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“American College of Financial Services graduates earn $X” — not “American College of Financial Services makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending American College of Financial Services 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.