-28%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Le Moyne-Owen College are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.6k vs $49.3k).
Tennessee · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Le Moyne-Owen College
Memphis, Tennessee. 571 undergraduate students. 26 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Le Moyne-Owen 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.
-21%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 20% at Le Moyne-Owen College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (571 vs 718).
+13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Le Moyne-Owen College rose 13% between 2017 and 2020 ($24.8k → $28.1k).
-11%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Le Moyne-Owen College fell 11% between 2021 and 2024 (52.9% → 47.2%).
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.
$35,594+37% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$25,992
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry24.7%-24% · '97→'24
Tennessee median 57.6%$17,000+467% · '97→'20
At program completion571-40% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS60.0%-51% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time97.2%+356% · '06→'24
latest cohort$12,076+61% · '00→'24
out-of-state $12,076SECTION 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
6.4%Median federal debt $17,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $35,594 (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.
-24%
Le Moyne-Owen College · completion · 150% fell
35.8% → 27.0%
-50%
Le Moyne-Owen College · completion · 100% fell
27.2% → 13.5%
-51%
Le Moyne-Owen College · retention fell
97.0% → 47.2%
-40%
Le Moyne-Owen College · undergrad enrollment fell
976 → 581
+61%
Le Moyne-Owen College · in-state tuition rose
$7,500 → $12,076
+61%
Le Moyne-Owen College · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,500 → $12,076
+467%
Le Moyne-Owen College · median debt rose
$4,950 → $28,070
-100%
Le Moyne-Owen College · cohort default rate fell
22.9% → 0.0%
+564%
Le Moyne-Owen College · pell share rose
10.1% → 67.3%
+21%
Le Moyne-Owen College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$29,500 → $35,594
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Le Moyne-Owen 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 Business Administration, Management and Operations · Bachelor's Degree at Le Moyne-Owen 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 Tennessee
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Le Moyne-Owen College graduates earn $X” — not “Le Moyne-Owen College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Le Moyne-Owen 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.