-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.4% → 0.0%).
Pennsylvania · Public · Predominantly certificates
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program
Broomall, Pennsylvania. 42 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program
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.
+20%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program rose 20% between 2006 and 2009 (74 → 89).
+12%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program rose 12% between 2021 and 2024 (71.4% → 80.0%).
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.
$55,120+1% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$54,431
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry76.5%-20% · '99→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$16,500+166% · '97→'20
At program completion42
latest IPEDS95.2%+36% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time100.0%+28% · '01→'24
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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
4.0%Median federal debt $16,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $55,120 (10y after entry).
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.
+36%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · retention rose
59.0% → 80.0%
+45%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 89
+166%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · median debt rose
$6,209 → $16,500
-100%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · cohort default rate fell
9.8% → 0.0%
-39%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · pell share fell
87.9% → 53.4%
+38%
Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program · earnings_median_6yr rose
$39,500 → $54,431
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program
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 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program(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
“Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program graduates earn $X” — not “Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program 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.