-100%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Gratz College fell 100% between 2009 and 2012 (75.0% → 0.0%).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Gratz College
Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. 158 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Gratz College
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 Gratz College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.0% → 0.0%).
+88%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Gratz College rose 87% between 2007 and 2009 (40.0% → 75.0%).
+70%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Gratz College rose 70% between 2021 and 2024 (84 → 143).
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—+29% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—
At program completion158+653% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—±0% · '07→'09
first-time, full-time—+36% · '01→'07
latest cohort—+149% · '01→'16
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.
150%-time completion rate.
+29%
Gratz College · completion · 150% rose
58.3% → 75.0%
-100%
Gratz College · completion · 100% fell
50.0% → 0.0%
+62%
Gratz College · undergrad enrollment rose
19 → 143
+149%
Gratz College · in-state tuition rose
$7,950 → $19,772
+46%
Gratz College · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,950 → $11,570
-100%
Gratz College · cohort default rate fell
2.1% → 0.0%
-73%
Gratz College · pell share fell
8.3% → 2.3%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Gratz College
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 Religion/Religious Studies · Bachelor's Degree at Gratz College(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
“Gratz College graduates earn $X” — not “Gratz College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Gratz College 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.