-100%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Hazleton Area Career Center fell 100% between 2019 and 2022 (40.0% → 0.0%).
Pennsylvania · Public · Predominantly certificates
Hazleton Area Career Center
Hazle TWP., Pennsylvania. 7 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Hazleton Area Career Center
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 Hazleton Area Career Center fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.5% → 0.0%).
+21%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Hazleton Area Career Center rose 21% between 2008 and 2011 ($10.4k → $12.5k).
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.
$49,311
Pennsylvania median $49,859—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+4% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—+238% · '98→'11
At program completion7+58% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS—-100% · '06→'22
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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-100%
Hazleton Area Career Center · retention fell
97.0% → 0.0%
+238%
Hazleton Area Career Center · median debt rose
$3,700 → $12,519
-100%
Hazleton Area Career Center · cohort default rate fell
66.6% → 0.0%
+42%
Hazleton Area Career Center · pell share rose
60.2% → 85.7%
+43%
Hazleton Area Career Center · earnings_median_10yr rose
$34,600 → $49,311
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Hazleton Area Career Center
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 Hazleton Area Career Center(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
“Hazleton Area Career Center graduates earn $X” — not “Hazleton Area Career Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Hazleton Area Career Center 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.