+176%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at College Unbound rose 176% between 2021 and 2024 (178 → 491).
Rhode Island · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
College Unbound
Providence, Rhode Island. 398 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at College Unbound
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.
+37%
First-year retention
First-year retention at College Unbound rose 37% between 2021 and 2024 (62.5% → 85.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Rhode Island
Each tile compares this institution to the Rhode Island median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Rhode Island median $68,941—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Rhode Island median 70.6%$7,690
At program completion398+331% · '19→'24
latest IPEDS57.1%+29% · '20→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$10,488+9% · '19→'24
out-of-state $10,488SECTION 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.
+29%
College Unbound · retention rose
66.7% → 85.7%
+189%
College Unbound · undergrad enrollment rose
114 → 491
+449%
College Unbound · pell share rose
12.5% → 68.6%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at College Unbound
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 Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other · Bachelor's Degree at College Unbound(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 Rhode Island
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“College Unbound graduates earn $X” — not “College Unbound makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending College Unbound 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.