-33%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Lansdale School of Business fell 33% between 2021 and 2024 (82.6% → 55.6%).
Pennsylvania · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Lansdale School of Business
North Wales, Pennsylvania. 87 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Lansdale School of Business
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.
-29%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Lansdale School of Business fell 29% between 2021 and 2024 (131 → 93).
+24%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Lansdale School of Business rose 24% between 2006 and 2009 ($7.9k → $9.8k).
+12%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Lansdale School of Business rose 12% between 2017 and 2020 ($12.1k → $13.5k).
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.
$37,442+14% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$32,982
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry69.6%-3% · '02→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$9,833+192% · '97→'20
At program completion87-75% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS77.8%-31% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—+5% · '01→'05
latest cohort$11,850+139% · '01→'24
out-of-state $11,850SECTION 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
3.5%Median federal debt $9,833 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $37,442 (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.
-31%
Lansdale School of Business · retention fell
80.0% → 55.6%
-75%
Lansdale School of Business · undergrad enrollment fell
367 → 93
+139%
Lansdale School of Business · in-state tuition rose
$5,075 → $12,150
+93%
Lansdale School of Business · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,075 → $9,775
+192%
Lansdale School of Business · median debt rose
$4,625 → $13,492
-100%
Lansdale School of Business · cohort default rate fell
22.3% → 0.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Lansdale School of Business
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 Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services · Associate's Degree at Lansdale School of Business(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
“Lansdale School of Business graduates earn $X” — not “Lansdale School of Business makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Lansdale School of Business 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.