+24%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Southwest Virginia Community College rose 24% between 2006 and 2009 (18.9% → 23.4%).
Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
Southwest Virginia Community College
Cedar Bluff, Virginia. 1,600 undergraduate students. 55 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southwest Virginia 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.
+21%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Southwest Virginia Community College rose 21% between 2021 and 2024 (50.8% → 61.2%).
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.
$34,221+11% · 6→10y
Virginia median $44,813$30,954
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry43.8%-10% · '97→'09
Virginia median 50.7%—
At program completion1,600-48% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS61.0%+7% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,901+327% · '00→'24
out-of-state $10,904SECTION 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.
-48%
Southwest Virginia Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
3,177 → 1,651
+327%
Southwest Virginia Community College · in-state tuition rose
$1,188 → $5,075
+129%
Southwest Virginia Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,019 → $11,513
+45%
Southwest Virginia Community College · pell share rose
31.8% → 46.2%
+36%
Southwest Virginia Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$25,100 → $34,221
+52%
Southwest Virginia Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$20,400 → $30,954
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
4 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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southwest Virginia 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
-$40,412
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $9,655
- 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
“Southwest Virginia Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Southwest Virginia Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southwest Virginia 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.