-16%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Somerset County Technology Center fell 16% between 2021 and 2024 (91.7% → 76.7%).
Pennsylvania · Public · Predominantly certificates
Somerset County Technology Center
Somerset, Pennsylvania. 50 undergraduate students. 15 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Somerset County Technology 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 Somerset County Technology Center fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.9% → 0.0%).
-13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Somerset County Technology Center fell 13% between 2017 and 2019 ($11.7k → $10.2k).
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.
$37,558+2% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$36,986
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry91.3%
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$11,500+24% · '11→'19
At program completion50
latest IPEDS85.7%+872% · '11→'24
first-time, full-time—
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
4.1%Median federal debt $11,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $37,558 (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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+872%
Somerset County Technology Center · retention rose
7.9% → 76.7%
+24%
Somerset County Technology Center · median debt rose
$8,205 → $10,194
+44%
Somerset County Technology Center · pell share rose
20.8% → 30.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Somerset County Technology 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 Somerset County Technology 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
“Somerset County Technology Center graduates earn $X” — not “Somerset County Technology Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Somerset County Technology 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.