-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Ponce Health Sciences University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.9% → 0.0%).
Puerto Rico · Private for-profit · Predominantly graduate
Ponce Health Sciences University
Ponce, Puerto Rico. 16 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Ponce Health Sciences University
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%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Ponce Health Sciences University fell 20% between 2018 and 2019 ($24.1k → $19.2k).
-18%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Ponce Health Sciences University fell 18% between 2018 and 2019 ($13.1k → $10.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Puerto Rico
Each tile compares this institution to the Puerto Rico median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Puerto Rico median $23,370—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Puerto Rico median 52.5%$15,500
At program completion—
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—-18% · '18→'19
annualSECTION 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
3 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Ponce Health Sciences University
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 Medicine · First Professional Degree at Ponce Health Sciences University(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 Puerto Rico
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Ponce Health Sciences University graduates earn $X” — not “Ponce Health Sciences University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Ponce Health Sciences University 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.