+22%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Skagit Valley College rose 22% between 2021 and 2024 ($4.4k → $5.4k).
Washington · Public · Predominantly associate's
Skagit Valley College
Mount Vernon, Washington. 2,581 undergraduate students. 69 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Skagit Valley 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Skagit Valley College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.9% → 0.0%).
+18%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Skagit Valley College rose 18% between 2017 and 2020 ($11.7k → $13.8k).
-17%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Skagit Valley College fell 17% between 2021 and 2024 (3.0k → 2.5k).
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.
$43,505+18% · 6→10y
Washington median $47,350$36,892
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry33.6%+48% · '97→'24
Washington median 46.8%$8,798+426% · '97→'20
At program completion2,581-48% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-2% · '04→'14
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$5,620+220% · '00→'24
out-of-state $7,561SECTION 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
2.7%Median federal debt $8,798 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $43,505 (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.
+48%
Skagit Valley College · completion · 150% rose
24.4% → 36.1%
-48%
Skagit Valley College · undergrad enrollment fell
4,801 → 2,477
+220%
Skagit Valley College · in-state tuition rose
$1,686 → $5,400
+426%
Skagit Valley College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $13,805
-100%
Skagit Valley College · cohort default rate fell
16.8% → 0.0%
+69%
Skagit Valley College · pell share rose
12.5% → 21.1%
+33%
Skagit Valley College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$32,600 → $43,505
+41%
Skagit Valley College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$29,200 → $41,294
+42%
Skagit Valley College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,000 → $36,892
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.$76,797Natural Resources Management and Policy.$59,935Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies.$53,442Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$53,003Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$38,123Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$37,483
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
6 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
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
NATURAL RESOURCES & CONSERVATION · CIP 03
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Skagit Valley 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
-$30,541
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $5,980
- 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
“Skagit Valley College graduates earn $X” — not “Skagit Valley College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Skagit Valley 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.