-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville fell 100% between 2017 and 2020 (23.3% → 0.0%).
Tennessee · Public · Predominantly certificates
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee. 730 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Tennessee College of Applied 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.
+35%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville rose 35% between 2006 and 2009 (60.2% → 81.2%).
+16%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville rose 16% between 2021 and 2024 (73.1% → 84.9%).
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.
$38,955+20% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$32,371
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry70.6%+62% · '97→'09
Tennessee median 57.6%—+110% · '97→'12
At program completion730-18% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS80.3%+2% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+62%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · completion · 150% rose
50.0% → 81.2%
+110%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · median debt rose
$2,625 → $5,500
-100%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · cohort default rate fell
28.8% → 0.0%
+25%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · pell share rose
32.2% → 40.4%
+29%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · earnings_median_10yr rose
$30,300 → $38,955
+29%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville · earnings_median_8yr rose
$28,300 → $36,440
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.
Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$60,433Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).$52,231Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies.$43,743Precision Metal Working.$38,460Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$36,738Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.$30,667Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.$27,984
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
7 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
PRECISION PRODUCTION · CIP 48
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Tennessee College of Applied 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
-$106,088
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $12,248
- HS-only baseline · TN
- $34,600
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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
“Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville graduates earn $X” — not “Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Tennessee College of Applied 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.