+84%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston rose 84% between 2006 and 2009 ($7.3k → $13.4k).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston
Houston, Texas. 281 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston
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.
+132%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston are 132% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($58.3k vs $25.2k).
+113%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston rose 113% between 2006 and 2009 (47.0% → 100.0%).
+48%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston rose 48% between 2021 and 2024 (244 → 360).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Texas
Each tile compares this institution to the Texas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$58,327+19% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$48,846
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry51.8%+28% · '99→'09
Texas median 51.8%$21,413+102% · '97→'09
At program completion281+103% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS84.6%+58% · '05→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$16,757+25% · '10→'24
out-of-state $16,757SECTION 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
4.9%Median federal debt $21,413 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $58,327 (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.
+28%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · completion · 150% rose
78.0% → 100.0%
+58%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · retention rose
54.0% → 85.3%
+92%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · undergrad enrollment rose
177 → 360
+102%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · median debt rose
$6,625 → $13,396
+624%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · pell share rose
1.9% → 33.1%
+20%
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston · earnings_median_10yr rose
$48,500 → $58,327
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
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston
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
$379,130
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 4
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $24,279
- HS-only baseline · TX
- $37,300
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 47
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 Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston graduates earn $X” — not “Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Houston 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.