-16%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Patrick & Henry Community College are 16% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $39.8k).
Virginia · Public · Predominantly associate's
Patrick & Henry Community College
Martinsville, Virginia. 1,411 undergraduate students. 45 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Patrick & Henry Community College
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.
+26%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Patrick & Henry Community College rose 26% between 2006 and 2009 (18.8% → 23.6%).
+14%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Patrick & Henry Community College rose 14% between 2021 and 2024 (54.6% → 62.4%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$33,323+11% · 6→10y
Virginia median $44,813$29,895
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry45.4%+36% · '97→'09
Virginia median 50.7%—
At program completion1,411-16% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS67.6%+22% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,858+244% · '01→'24
out-of-state $10,861SECTION 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.
+36%
Patrick & Henry Community College · completion · 150% rose
17.3% → 23.6%
+22%
Patrick & Henry Community College · retention rose
51.0% → 62.4%
+244%
Patrick & Henry Community College · in-state tuition rose
$1,454 → $5,002
+135%
Patrick & Henry Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,865 → $11,440
+37%
Patrick & Henry Community College · pell share rose
34.0% → 46.6%
+21%
Patrick & Henry Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$27,600 → $33,323
+31%
Patrick & Henry Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$22,800 → $29,895
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.$70,042Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$56,781Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology.$50,171Criminal Justice and Corrections.$42,072Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$38,304Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$37,607Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.$30,683Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$25,255
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
8 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Patrick & Henry Community College
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
$1,659
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 38
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $5,632
- HS-only baseline · VA
- $39,800
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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 Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Patrick & Henry Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Patrick & Henry Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Patrick & Henry Community College 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.