-19%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Northwest Indian College are 19% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($35.4k vs $43.8k).
Washington · Public · Predominantly associate's
Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, Washington. 677 undergraduate students. 20 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Northwest Indian 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.
+20%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Northwest Indian College rose 20% between 2021 and 2024 (45.8% → 55.0%).
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.
$35,447+19% · 6→10y
Washington median $47,350$29,768
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry26.9%+273% · '01→'24
Washington median 46.8%—
At program completion677-8% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS53.3%+267% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,969+109% · '00→'24
out-of-state $3,969SECTION 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.
+264%
Northwest Indian College · completion · 150% rose
4.8% → 18.1%
+267%
Northwest Indian College · retention rose
15.0% → 55.0%
+109%
Northwest Indian College · in-state tuition rose
$2,088 → $4,365
+23%
Northwest Indian College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,900 → $35,447
+28%
Northwest Indian College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$23,200 → $29,768
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Northwest Indian 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
-$43,564
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $10,544
- HS-only baseline · WA
- $41,200
- 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 Washington
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Northwest Indian College graduates earn $X” — not “Northwest Indian College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Northwest Indian 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.