-31pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 31 pp at Northern Tier Career Center vs the 2003–2007 baseline (54.5% vs 85.5%).
Pennsylvania · Public · Predominantly certificates
Northern Tier Career Center
Towanda, Pennsylvania. 37 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Northern Tier 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.
+20%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Northern Tier Career Center rose 20% between 2006 and 2009 ($9.4k → $11.3k).
+20%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Northern Tier Career Center rose 20% between 2017 and 2020 ($12.3k → $14.8k).
+17%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Northern Tier Career Center rose 17% between 2006 and 2009 ($11.3k → $13.3k).
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.
$38,737-10% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$43,203
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry54.5%+32% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$12,625+83% · '99→'20
At program completion37+106% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS22.2%+8% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time92.9%+20% · '01→'24
latest cohort—+25% · '04→'09
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
4.3%Median federal debt $12,625 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $38,737 (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.
+32%
Northern Tier Career Center · completion · 150% rose
72.0% → 94.7%
+83%
Northern Tier Career Center · median debt rose
$8,075 → $14,750
-100%
Northern Tier Career Center · cohort default rate fell
18.1% → 0.0%
-55%
Northern Tier Career Center · pell share fell
73.3% → 33.3%
+44%
Northern Tier Career Center · earnings_median_6yr rose
$30,100 → $43,203
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.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Northern Tier 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$103,801
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 15
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $16,299
- HS-only baseline · PA
- $38,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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
“Northern Tier Career Center graduates earn $X” — not “Northern Tier Career Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Northern Tier 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.