-48%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers fell 48% between 2021 and 2024 (60.5% → 31.4%).
Tennessee · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers
Chattanooga, Tennessee. 311 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers
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.
+19%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers rose 19% between 2021 and 2024 ($10.7k → $12.7k).
+19%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers rose 19% between 2021 and 2024 ($10.7k → $12.7k).
-10%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers are 10% below 6-year earnings ($28.9k → $26.0k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Tennessee
Each tile compares this institution to the Tennessee median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$25,954-10% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$28,876
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry87.4%-79% · '97→'24
Tennessee median 57.6%$5,457+118% · '97→'20
At program completion311+91% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS31.4%-54% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$10,690+126% · '00→'24
out-of-state $10,690SECTION 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
2.8%Median federal debt $5,457 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,954 (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.
-79%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · completion · 150% fell
58.0% → 12.0%
-54%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · retention fell
69.0% → 31.4%
+60%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · undergrad enrollment rose
132 → 252
+126%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · in-state tuition rose
$5,616 → $12,709
+126%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,616 → $12,709
+118%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · median debt rose
$3,616 → $7,891
-100%
Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers · cohort default rate fell
24.1% → 0.0%
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers
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
-$221,819
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $28,723
- HS-only baseline · TN
- $34,600
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 51
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 Tennessee
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers graduates earn $X” — not “Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers 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.