-26%
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design are 26% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($41.2k vs $55.8k).
State hub · Wisconsin · vintage 2025-05
Wisconsin Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Wisconsin — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Wisconsin
Top signals rolled up across Wisconsininstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-20%
Northland College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Northland College are 20% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($44.6k vs $55.8k).
-18%
Maranatha Baptist University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Maranatha Baptist University are 18% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($45.6k vs $55.8k).
-13%
Nicolet Area Technical College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Nicolet Area Technical College are 13% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($38.6k vs $44.6k).
-13%
Mount Mary University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mount Mary University are 13% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($48.7k vs $55.8k).
-10%
Gateway Technical College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Gateway Technical College are 10% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($40.3k vs $44.6k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Wisconsin Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
72
Title-IV main campuses4,210
with published outcomes$46,297
across institutions58.4%
median across institutions224,953
latest historical vintage$9,565
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Wisconsin has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+25%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
47.1% → 58.9%
+187%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,327 → $9,565
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
41 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 41 of 72 Title-IV institutions · Public 30 · Private 27 · For-profit 15
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 42 Wisconsin cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Appleton
- Ashland
- Beloit
- Cleveland
- De Pere
- Eau Claire
- Fennimore
- Fond du Lac
- Fond Du Lac
- Franklin
- Green Bay
- Greenfield
- Hayward
- Janesville
- Kenosha
- Keshena
- La Crosse
- Madison
- Menomonie
- Mequon
- Milwaukee
- Nashotah
- Onalaska
- Oshkosh
- Pewaukee
- Platteville
- Plymouth
- Racine
- Rhinelander
- Rice Lake
- Ripon
- River Falls
- Stevens Point
- Superior
- Union Grove
- Watertown
- Waukesha
- Waupun
- Wausau
- Wauwatosa
- Whitewater
- Wisconsin Rapids
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.