-45%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville fell 45% between 2021 and 2024 (75.6% → 41.7%).
Tennessee · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee. 1,800 undergraduate students. 7 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville
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.
+532%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville rose 532% between 2021 and 2024 (271 → 1.7k).
-13pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 13 pp at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville vs the 2019–2022 baseline (45.8% vs 58.6%).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.3% → 0.0%).
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.
$39,544+65% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$23,932
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry45.8%-47% · '05→'24
Tennessee median 57.6%$9,245+43% · '05→'20
At program completion1,800+1389% · '05→'24
latest IPEDS—+233% · '05→'21
first-time, full-time—+14% · '06→'07
latest cohort$17,027-5% · '13→'24
out-of-state $17,027SECTION 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
3.1%Median federal debt $9,245 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $39,544 (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.
-47%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · completion · 150% fell
78.0% → 41.7%
-24%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · completion · 100% fell
77.0% → 58.3%
+233%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · retention rose
15.0% → 50.0%
+799%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · undergrad enrollment rose
115 → 1,712
+43%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · median debt rose
$6,625 → $9,500
-100%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · cohort default rate fell
31.1% → 0.0%
+222%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · pell share rose
18.8% → 60.6%
+22%
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville · earnings_median_8yr rose
$25,000 → $30,380
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
3 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 10
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville
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
-$36,881
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $21,296
- HS-only baseline · TN
- $34,600
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 10
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
“SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville graduates earn $X” — not “SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville 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.