+49%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Jacksonville College-Main Campus rose 49% between 2021 and 2024 ($5.9k → $8.8k).
Texas · Private nonprofit · Predominantly associate's
Jacksonville College-Main Campus
Jacksonville, Texas. 197 undergraduate students. 20 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Jacksonville College-Main Campus
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.
+49%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Jacksonville College-Main Campus rose 49% between 2021 and 2024 ($5.9k → $8.8k).
-43%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Jacksonville College-Main Campus fell 43% between 2021 and 2024 (58.8% → 33.3%).
-31%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Jacksonville College-Main Campus fell 31% between 2021 and 2024 (227 → 157).
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.
$38,885+26% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$30,790
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry42.0%-25% · '97→'09
Texas median 51.8%$3,500-20% · '97→'00
At program completion197+57% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS50.4%-21% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'03
latest cohort$8,220+99% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,220SECTION 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
1.2%Median federal debt $3,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $38,885 (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.
-25%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · completion · 150% fell
31.8% → 23.9%
-21%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · retention fell
42.0% → 33.3%
+28%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · undergrad enrollment rose
100 → 157
+99%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · in-state tuition rose
$4,450 → $8,850
+99%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,450 → $8,850
-20%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · median debt fell
$2,625 → $2,100
-54%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · pell share fell
47.3% → 22.0%
+52%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · earnings_median_10yr rose
$25,500 → $38,885
+37%
Jacksonville College-Main Campus · earnings_median_6yr rose
$22,400 → $30,790
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Jacksonville College-Main Campus
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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Jacksonville College-Main Campus(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 Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Jacksonville College-Main Campus graduates earn $X” — not “Jacksonville College-Main Campus makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Jacksonville College-Main Campus 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.