+1180%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Commonwealth Technical Institute rose 1180% between 2006 and 2009 (5.0% → 63.4%).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Commonwealth Technical Institute
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 132 undergraduate students. 19 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Commonwealth Technical Institute
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%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Commonwealth Technical Institute rose 45% between 2021 and 2024 (89 → 129).
+11%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Commonwealth Technical Institute rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (76.9% → 85.2%).
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.
$21,632+8% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$20,040
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry74.4%+102% · '01→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—
At program completion132-20% · '01→'24
latest IPEDS74.4%+20% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$7,714-51% · '01→'24
out-of-state $7,714SECTION 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.
+102%
Commonwealth Technical Institute · completion · 150% rose
31.3% → 63.4%
+20%
Commonwealth Technical Institute · retention rose
71.0% → 85.2%
-51%
Commonwealth Technical Institute · in-state tuition fell
$15,738 → $7,714
-30%
Commonwealth Technical Institute · pell share fell
78.6% → 55.3%
+22%
Commonwealth Technical Institute · earnings_median_8yr rose
$18,800 → $22,953
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
CONSTRUCTION TRADES · CIP 46
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Commonwealth Technical Institute
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$340,042
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $18,170
- HS-only baseline · PA
- $38,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 46
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
“Commonwealth Technical Institute graduates earn $X” — not “Commonwealth Technical Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Commonwealth Technical Institute 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.