-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Coastal Carolina University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.1% → 0.0%).
South Carolina · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina. 9,909 undergraduate students. 78 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Coastal Carolina 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.
+11%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Coastal Carolina University rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (9.4k → 10.4k).
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.
$47,258+24% · 6→10y
South Carolina median $39,325$38,070
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry50.8%+41% · '97→'24
South Carolina median 44.4%$16,979+352% · '97→'20
At program completion9,909+172% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS75.7%+11% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time80.2%+5% · '01→'24
latest cohort$11,640+233% · '00→'24
out-of-state $29,628SECTION 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
4.8%Median federal debt $16,979 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $47,258 (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.
+41%
Coastal Carolina University · completion · 150% rose
34.4% → 48.5%
+160%
Coastal Carolina University · completion · 100% rose
14.4% → 37.4%
+11%
Coastal Carolina University · retention rose
70.0% → 77.4%
+172%
Coastal Carolina University · undergrad enrollment rose
3,810 → 10,377
+233%
Coastal Carolina University · in-state tuition rose
$3,500 → $11,640
+202%
Coastal Carolina University · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,810 → $29,628
+352%
Coastal Carolina University · median debt rose
$5,250 → $23,750
-100%
Coastal Carolina University · cohort default rate fell
7.1% → 0.0%
+393%
Coastal Carolina University · pell share rose
5.3% → 26.2%
+25%
Coastal Carolina University · earnings_median_10yr rose
$37,900 → $47,258
+29%
Coastal Carolina University · earnings_median_8yr rose
$34,600 → $44,747
+26%
Coastal Carolina University · earnings_median_6yr rose
$30,300 → $38,070
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.
Information Science/Studies.$78,764Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$78,547Business Administration, Management and Operations.$77,337Educational Administration and Supervision.$72,471Computer and Information Sciences, General.$69,074Accounting and Related Services.$66,105Finance and Financial Management Services.$66,069Marketing.$63,667Business Administration, Management and Operations.$59,876Business/Managerial Economics.$55,443Education, General.$55,354Political Science and Government.$54,322Public Health.$52,470Communication and Media Studies.$49,719Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations.$49,288Biology, General.$49,256Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.$48,497Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$48,399Hospitality Administration/Management.$46,742Health and Physical Education/Fitness.$46,652Special Education and Teaching.$46,262Psychology, General.$45,124Sociology.$44,757History.$44,119
Showing top 24 of 31 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
31 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$43,180Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$48,399Educational Administration and Supervision.$72,471Special Education and Teaching.$46,262Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.$48,497Education, General.$55,354
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE · CIP 23
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 29
PARKS, RECREATION & FITNESS · CIP 31
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
Business Administration, Management and Operations.$59,876Marketing.$63,667Business Administration, Management and Operations.$77,337Finance and Financial Management Services.$66,069Accounting and Related Services.$66,105Hospitality Administration/Management.$46,742Business/Managerial Economics.$55,443
HISTORY · CIP 54
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Coastal Carolina 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$203,285
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 14
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $13,209
- HS-only baseline · SC
- $33,700
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 31
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
“Coastal Carolina University graduates earn $X” — not “Coastal Carolina University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Coastal Carolina 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.