+28%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at American College of the Building Arts rose 28% between 2021 and 2024 (121 → 155).
South Carolina · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
American College of the Building Arts
Charleston, South Carolina. 140 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at American College of the Building Arts
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%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at American College of the Building Arts rose 20% between 2021 and 2024 (45.8% → 55.2%).
+13%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at American College of the Building Arts rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 (55.2% → 62.1%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. South Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the South Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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South Carolina median $39,325—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry64.0%-7% · '19→'24
South Carolina median 44.4%$10,500
At program completion140+65% · '19→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+18% · '19→'24
first-time, full-time62.1%-54% · '19→'24
latest cohort$20,572+5% · '19→'24
out-of-state $20,572SECTION 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.
+38%
American College of the Building Arts · completion · 100% rose
40.0% → 55.2%
+18%
American College of the Building Arts · retention rose
63.6% → 75.0%
+31%
American College of the Building Arts · undergrad enrollment rose
94 → 155
+287%
American College of the Building Arts · pell share rose
4.1% → 18.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at American College of the Building Arts
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 Architectural Sciences and Technology · Bachelor's Degree at American College of the Building Arts(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 South Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“American College of the Building Arts graduates earn $X” — not “American College of the Building Arts makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending American College of the Building Arts 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.