-20%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing fell 20% between 2022 and 2024 (100.0% → 80.0%).
West Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing
Parkersburg, West Virginia. 28 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing
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.
+94%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing rose 94% between 2021 and 2024 (16 → 31).
-42%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing fell 42% between 2011 and 2014 (23.8% → 13.7%).
-37%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing fell 37% between 2006 and 2009 ($6.6k → $4.2k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. West Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the West Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$40,547+24% · 6→10y
West Virginia median $37,714$32,642
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
West Virginia median 61.2%—+28% · '97→'09
At program completion28+19% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%±0% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time83.3%-5% · '01→'24
latest cohort—±0% · '01→'03
annualSECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+2000%
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing · completion · 150% rose
0.0% → 100.0%
+28%
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing · median debt rose
$3,241 → $4,151
-42%
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing · cohort default rate fell
23.8% → 13.7%
+21%
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing · pell share rose
64.5% → 77.8%
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.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing
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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
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 West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing 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.