-31%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sisseton Wahpeton College are 31% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($31.5k vs $45.5k).
South Dakota · Public · Predominantly associate's
Sisseton Wahpeton College
Sisseton, South Dakota. 209 undergraduate students. 15 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sisseton Wahpeton 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.
+229%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Sisseton Wahpeton College rose 229% between 2022 and 2024 (6.2% → 20.6%).
+58%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Sisseton Wahpeton College rose 58% between 2018 and 2021 (32.8% → 51.7%).
+48%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Sisseton Wahpeton College rose 48% between 2021 and 2024 (131 → 194).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. South Dakota
Each tile compares this institution to the South Dakota median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$31,546+32% · 6→10y
South Dakota median $46,709$23,940
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry13.0%+27% · '97→'24
South Dakota median 59.6%—-4% · '97→'00
At program completion209-2% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+269% · '04→'21
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,330+36% · '01→'24
out-of-state $4,330SECTION 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 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.
+27%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · completion · 150% rose
16.2% → 20.6%
+269%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · retention rose
14.0% → 51.7%
+36%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · in-state tuition rose
$3,190 → $4,330
+36%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,190 → $4,330
+27%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · pell share rose
50.6% → 64.2%
+59%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$19,900 → $31,546
+61%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$17,700 → $28,455
+82%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$11,700 → $23,940
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Sisseton Wahpeton 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 · Associate's Degree at Sisseton Wahpeton 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 Dakota
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sisseton Wahpeton College graduates earn $X” — not “Sisseton Wahpeton College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sisseton Wahpeton 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.