+47%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Prairie View A & M University rose 47% between 2006 and 2009 ($6.8k → $10.0k).
Texas · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Prairie View A&M
Prairie View, Texas. 8,527 undergraduate students. 67 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Prairie View A&M
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.
+39%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Prairie View A & M University rose 39% between 2021 and 2024 (14.6% → 20.3%).
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.
$45,411+25% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$36,350
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry43.2%+60% · '97→'24
Texas median 51.8%$17,500+51% · '97→'09
At program completion8,527+80% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS74.1%+13% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time75.3%-18% · '01→'24
latest cohort$11,299+339% · '00→'24
out-of-state $26,874SECTION 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
5.1%Median federal debt $17,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $45,411 (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.
+60%
Prairie View A&M · completion · 150% rose
27.0% → 43.2%
+149%
Prairie View A&M · completion · 100% rose
8.2% → 20.3%
+13%
Prairie View A&M · retention rose
67.0% → 75.6%
+80%
Prairie View A&M · undergrad enrollment rose
4,933 → 8,877
+339%
Prairie View A&M · in-state tuition rose
$2,576 → $11,299
+195%
Prairie View A&M · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,116 → $26,874
+51%
Prairie View A&M · median debt rose
$6,625 → $10,000
+21%
Prairie View A&M · earnings_median_10yr rose
$37,600 → $45,411
+21%
Prairie View A&M · earnings_median_8yr rose
$32,700 → $39,649
+28%
Prairie View A&M · earnings_median_6yr rose
$28,500 → $36,350
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$110,970Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$106,989Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$97,495Mechanical Engineering.$96,773Chemical Engineering.$92,981Computer and Information Sciences, General.$83,934Construction Engineering Technologies.$82,312Civil Engineering.$81,913Business Administration, Management and Operations.$80,276Accounting and Related Services.$76,695Architecture.$63,882Educational Administration and Supervision.$63,263Accounting and Related Services.$61,625Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology.$60,163Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.$59,427Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.$55,009Political Science and Government.$51,812Social Work.$49,314Management Information Systems and Services.$49,131Biology, General.$48,711Criminal Justice and Corrections.$47,806Business Administration, Management and Operations.$47,522Psychology, General.$45,883Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.$45,372
Showing top 24 of 27 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
27 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES · CIP 19
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
AGRICULTURE · CIP 01
ARCHITECTURE · CIP 04
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Prairie View A&M
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
$143,213
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 19
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $17,552
- HS-only baseline · TX
- $37,300
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 43
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
“Prairie View A&M graduates earn $X” — not “Prairie View A&M makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Prairie View A&M 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.