-29%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Denmark Technical College are 29% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($25.4k vs $35.8k).
South Carolina · Public · Predominantly certificates
Denmark Technical College
Denmark, South Carolina. 539 undergraduate students. 21 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Denmark Technical College
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 Denmark Technical College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (13.3% → 0.0%).
+103%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Denmark Technical College rose 103% between 2017 and 2020 ($7.5k → $15.2k).
+63%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Denmark Technical College rose 63% between 2021 and 2024 (318 → 519).
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.
$25,351+36% · 6→10y
South Carolina median $39,325$18,631
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry13.8%-46% · '97→'09
South Carolina median 44.4%$6,750+838% · '97→'20
At program completion539-43% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS51.9%+48% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$6,301+409% · '00→'24
out-of-state $11,927SECTION 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
3.5%Median federal debt $6,750 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,351 (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.
-46%
Denmark Technical College · completion · 150% fell
25.7% → 13.8%
+48%
Denmark Technical College · retention rose
32.0% → 47.4%
-43%
Denmark Technical College · undergrad enrollment fell
915 → 519
+409%
Denmark Technical College · in-state tuition rose
$1,240 → $6,315
+415%
Denmark Technical College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,320 → $11,955
+838%
Denmark Technical College · median debt rose
$1,625 → $15,250
-100%
Denmark Technical College · cohort default rate fell
31.6% → 0.0%
-52%
Denmark Technical College · pell share fell
82.8% → 39.5%
+40%
Denmark Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$18,100 → $25,351
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Denmark Technical College
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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Denmark Technical College(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
“Denmark Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Denmark Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Denmark Technical College 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.