-47%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Academy of Interactive Entertainment fell 47% between 2021 and 2024 (89 → 47).
Washington · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Academy of Interactive Entertainment
Seattle, Washington. 76 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Academy of Interactive Entertainment
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.
-14%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Academy of Interactive Entertainment fell 14% between 2021 and 2024 (72.7% → 62.3%).
+14%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Academy of Interactive Entertainment rose 14% between 2017 and 2020 ($10.6k → $12.0k).
+13%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Academy of Interactive Entertainment rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 ($22.8k → $25.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Washington
Each tile compares this institution to the Washington median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Washington median $47,350$39,209
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry97.4%
Washington median 46.8%$12,000+14% · '14→'20
At program completion76+9% · '13→'24
latest IPEDS66.0%-13% · '13→'24
first-time, full-time65.0%-46% · '13→'24
latest cohort$24,600+61% · '13→'24
out-of-state $24,600SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-13%
Academy of Interactive Entertainment · retention fell
71.4% → 62.3%
+61%
Academy of Interactive Entertainment · in-state tuition rose
$16,000 → $25,800
+61%
Academy of Interactive Entertainment · out-of-state tuition rose
$16,000 → $25,800
+605%
Academy of Interactive Entertainment · pell share rose
0.0% → 30.3%
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.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Academy of Interactive Entertainment
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
$72,995
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 28
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $38,411
- HS-only baseline · WA
- $41,200
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 11
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 Washington
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Academy of Interactive Entertainment graduates earn $X” — not “Academy of Interactive Entertainment makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Academy of Interactive Entertainment 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.